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Old 1st Nov 2012, 09:49
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Aser
 
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I can tell you we were lucky that we had only one accident, and I can tell you that because I was there from day one.

Sadly I even remember how before the accident, some of us were talking about something serious could happen.

Inaer is lowering the experience requirements again, they did that when introducing the aw139, releasing crews without experience in the machine, not enough total time or in the operation.

Now, after that dozens of pilots are going abroad in the last years Inaer is trying to find pilots desperately, even thinking they can find foreign 139 Spanish speaking pilots (a requirement to do SAR)

It's a horribly coincidence that I wrote an article about it, just before the report got out pointing the crew experience as one of the factors.

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Regards and fly safe
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