SKYWOLF "I have given the CAA proof that a certain helicopter has been flying illegally. They have done nothing. The whole thing stinks of corruption."
Have you had the bottle to put it in writing? If not you can't expect much and if you have then copy it direct to Richie Profit, the Head of SRG at Gatwick and the Head of Enforcement in London and ask for an explaination of what action the CAA is taking.
If neither respond within 2 weeks copy the DfT and your MP.
Of course if you can back up you suggestion of CAA corruption you should just go to the Police and not bitch on the internet.
But recalling your past posts asking for the reg of the 'MI6 Jetranger' and on low level radar coverage in Yorkshire perhaps you need to pull your imagination back to flight idle.
MORE GENERALLY:
When I've been audited by the CAA the only nit-picking has been when they've found a big shortcoming that we'd not (but should have) spotted and they want to get the message across subtly that we'd missed a trick.
When I do sub-contract audits its a neat way of seeing when the penny drops that there is a bigger problem and how willing the auditee is to acknowledge the bigger problem.
Heliport, I think you looking in the wrong direction asking 'can the campaign/feds/c**ts route out the cowboys better?'.
IMHO the reality is that even the real cowboys are also 'professional pilots / engineers' and everytime they come a cropper there is always some one on this site who will defend them as decent guys (e.g: drug smugglers 'who I'd buy a drink for when he's let out' or engineers 'who's only oversight was not to read the limitations in the manual').
Up & Away said:
"The CAA do as much as is reasonably practical.
Freedom to fly as we do has a price and its called resposibility."
I for one agree.