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Old 23rd Dec 2002, 11:17
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Mount'in Man
 
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Push it real good.

Methinks you 'pull it too hard!'.

Firstly coroners are not the final authority. Such issues may go considerably further in the court system such as Air Ontario discovered at Dryden and Air New Zealand at Mt Erebus - Royal commission, high court, privy council…

Secondly the Royal Canadian Mounted Police operate 43 airplanes (mostly turbine) flown by some eighty officers in some pretty demanding conditions, and do a damn good job of it. To say that civilian pilots are more professional than police pilots is highly debatable. Well disciplined police officers would probably provide a better end product than many of the young folk who enter the industry without life experiences. How many of your police air wings in Australia use former officers in a civilian capacity to pilot their airplanes?

No pilot will compromise his life unless he hopes to depart the gene pool. For any corporate aviation department to be successful requires a lot of support and understanding from management. Pilots will do the best they can with the equipment and training they have at their disposal. It is up to management to ensure that such equipment and training meets the demands that they impose. Systems fail and one would hope that the managers of this system would look closely at options to improve and consequences if they pursue the industry approach. Cost cutting for competition never resulted in an effective system.

PIRG, you don’t spell so well for a professional – get a dictionary!

No rhetoric or emotion in this post.

Sincere condolences to all concerned.

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