The reality is.........
For those who watched this event, it is impressive to see that it took more than one hour and a lot of push from Frank Klees for Transport Canada to admit that the non-compliance found during the inspection would have stop the operation.
The answer given by TC made me laugh when they said that Ornge decide by themselves to stop their pilots to fly until the training was completed.
The reality is:
Ornge did not have any choice and it was better for Ornge to say that they decided to stop some part of their operation until crew would be trained in order to comply with the rules than having TC shutting them down. Of course, in this case, TC would have to provide a lot of justification to the government because shutting down the Air Ambulance after so many scandals will necessary need answers which is completely wrong. There is no reason why the Air Ambulance should have any privilege. If you don't comply with the rule, you should be stopped.
Part of our problems was related to imcomplete training which made our IFR operation suspended in May. Well, TC should have say your IFR ticket is invalided until you fix this problem, but of course, without an IFR ticket we don't fly at night anymore....BIG PROBLEM!!!!!!!!! Since 1/3 of our hours are done at night, TC would have to explain this new reality and I am sure the inspector in charge was not open to do that.......
So, we did no fly iFR during Summer and our IFR was only given back to us after some crew went to do their training on the Sim and finally when TC was able to accept a training done on the aircraft, training completed only during the last 2 weeks.
How great Transport Canada is........