Clegg - "It is interesting following the story of the Barrier grounding whilst also reading the Hempel thread.etc".
Why?? – how ??, please explain how it can it possibly be even remotely parallel?? Even spun up by Wodger the Weport Wabbit, it's a tough line to argue. Smoke, mirrors and pony pooh, all whipped up into sticky mess which will rot your teeth and probably make you go blind.
Compare the Tiger, Barrier, Polar, Airtex, Whyalla or Uzu treatment to Pel Air; then you may get somewhere close to a working understanding of the environment industry really operates in.
Compare James or Quadrio (or any of half dozen like them) to Hempel then, you may get somewhere close a working to understanding the environment industry pilots really operate in.
Even if Barrier was the most dodgy, unsafe, operator on the planet the methods and double jeopardy system used to 'enforce' the CASA 'psychic' analysis, subsequent fiscal carnage and legal wriggling is a problem to reasonable folk. We should be able to applaud the CASA efforts, but who can believe anything they come up with ?– they ain't playing with a straight deck.
Operators operate aircraft, plumbers fix the taps, (ginger beers fix just about anything). You want the surgeon or the secretary??. Admin runs the bloody bookwork, counts the paperclips and sits on it's arse in the office; all day, ear-wigging the boss, whining about policy and playing favourites. It does not, can not; nor should be allowed to run a fleet of aircraft or the boys and girls who fly them - by remote control. This ain't Kansas Toto.
Arrgghhh - Steam off.
Gobbles, get your chain saw lad; the next bloody admin or legal type shows up here- it's all yours.