It’s absolutely amazing how pilots around the world are very quickly to “Eat Their Own”. You never see other professions do so on a public forum i.e. Doctor’s, Lawyers, Engineers, Architects, etc. Little or small wonder why pilots don’t get any respect they think they deserve.
It is not surprising the conditions of pilots around the world have diminished over the years, pilots are not very cohesive in nature and will eat their own when it comes to their profession. Many other professions think of the profession first before putting pen to paper are unified in nature and never criticize in public as we follow in “The CPG” Management. Those pilot groups that have unity have much better conditions.
In all the years of industrial dispute at “The CPG” only one has broken our bond on disputes WRT “The CPG” Management and this was only done after an overreaction from the DFO which had him fired. The time before his termination, he was very loyal to “The CPG”.
As for the SIA fire incident: How do you know what happened? Would you see other professions jump to conclusions and so early to criticize ones peers before all the facts are known?
From the evidence we have, there was a fuel leak. What does your checklist ask of you? You run the checklist and you dump fuel and come in to land. Upon landing the aircraft catches fire and extinguished by the fire crew. No one was injured and all are safe. So how do you justify criticizing the Captain when his job was completed in safely getting his passengers off the airplane?
There are many “What If’s”.
The only thing We at “The CPG” would have done differently was to turn the crew around with a second aircraft within 1:10 time and the MLO would ask/pressured the crew into using “Commanders Discretion” to get the job done.
This whole situation is not stressful in our opinion nor is diverting in SYA with smoke in the cockpit, weather at minimums and 10 knots of tailwind. If the “The CPG” crew can take off out of SYA after that situation, there is no reason why the SIA crew could not have taken another aircraft to Milan. Clearly SIA and BA does not have to correct MLO in place. Pilots are trained for this and we believe minimal stress. As in all situations like this “The CPG” MLO liaisons with our Corporate Medical Department to access the mental functions after any stressful minor incidents like this. We have trained our own Corporate Medical personal that we are a “GO” airline. At “The CPG” pilots are unable to access themselves so the MLO and Corporate Medical accesses it for them. Only “The CPG” Management knows what is best for the pilots as per our rostering. Corporate Medical are not accountable in these situations.
In the eyes of “The CPG” FOP Management, The SIA Captain clearly did his job of keeping everyone under control and getting everyone to safety. We clearly know what it is like to keep employee’s under control.
Criticizing a Captain and his crew for getting all the SIA passengers off safely and no injuries clearly demonstrates the unprofessionalism of those who criticize.
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