Cardiff City Footballer Feared Missing after aircraft disappeared near Channel Island
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The bottom line is that the various authorities know who is doing it and why but very rarely take any action, probably because investigating and taking even one errant PPL to court costs more than the safety benefit likely to be achieved.
All sounds rather Orwellian: 1984 and all that............!!
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I have not seen, heard or read cost being mentioned anywhere. Naturally I stand to be corrected on this point.
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All this talk of suspect pilots bank accounts being checked by the authorities- these are I suspect primarily cash transactions, with the money cascading down through the organizers to the pilots and the owners. As regards Mr Ibbotson, I don't for a minute believe that any electronic funds will have hit any accounts he holds, the main cash payment would most likely have been made when he returned David Hendersons credit cards following the flight. I'm sure that Mr H will of course have been spoken to by the various authorities re lending his card/s out and the basis for the flights he apparently organized.
Can any of you help me in discovering more about the mysterious David Henderson from Gamston who clearly has links with the ill fated aircraft?
He claims in this BBC clip which shows the aircraft that ferried Sala and Ibbotson to their watery graves to have carried out many long distance ferries.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/magazine...-a-ferry-pilot
He claims in this BBC clip which shows the aircraft that ferried Sala and Ibbotson to their watery graves to have carried out many long distance ferries.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/magazine...-a-ferry-pilot
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Can any of you help me in discovering more about the mysterious David Henderson
David Henderson is also the alias used by the fraudster Kevin Krellin who used to post here as Golden Eagle Flyer.
Although this is definitely NOT the same person (I was present when Krellin was convicted and thus know what he looks like) it did strike me as a bit coincidental that the name should come up again!
Many thanks Jon.
There are only two David Henderson’s listed on the FAA database with UK connections.
In the BBC clip he refers to only having a private pilots licence but ferrying many aircraft.
I am surprised no one at Gamston has revealed more about him.
UK light aviation is a very small world.
I would have thought ferrying N reg aircraft by a British pilot without a commercial licence is a grey area?
There are only two David Henderson’s listed on the FAA database with UK connections.
In the BBC clip he refers to only having a private pilots licence but ferrying many aircraft.
I am surprised no one at Gamston has revealed more about him.
UK light aviation is a very small world.
I would have thought ferrying N reg aircraft by a British pilot without a commercial licence is a grey area?
He then says he’s a professional ferry pilot, present tense, I see nothing untoward with the two statements.
A huge amount of sad irony when he talks about the loss of pilots he’s known, with lots of experience, being killed due to simple mistakes.
these are I suspect primarily cash transactions
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It is not a matter of what is on the bank statement. It is more a matter of what is not on the bank statement. The term bank statement being used loosely, so include within it credit card accounts.
Naturally any dodgy transaction involves the use of cash, readies. Necessitated by the need for not wishing to a subscription to tax, subscribing to benefits, avoiding debt, involvement in drugs, fraud, terrorism and any other form of foul play you can think of.
But when it comes to flying, most unlikely that the ostrich who is up to no good will be able to resist to clock the flying hours in his log book. So if the entry is in there and the source of payment /cost for it is nowhere to be seen, then what is the story. Better be a convincing one. Conversely if the ostrich thinks he is an owl, then he will resist the temptation and not book the hours. But then he will be taking another risk that maybe someday someone will question why his name was down on some airfield or airport and yet not down in his log book. For which I suppose many a excuse may be put forward. However if it was in real-time electronic form, just as HMRC have all employers do their payroll, then there will be little room to invent an excuse.
Naturally any dodgy transaction involves the use of cash, readies. Necessitated by the need for not wishing to a subscription to tax, subscribing to benefits, avoiding debt, involvement in drugs, fraud, terrorism and any other form of foul play you can think of.
But when it comes to flying, most unlikely that the ostrich who is up to no good will be able to resist to clock the flying hours in his log book. So if the entry is in there and the source of payment /cost for it is nowhere to be seen, then what is the story. Better be a convincing one. Conversely if the ostrich thinks he is an owl, then he will resist the temptation and not book the hours. But then he will be taking another risk that maybe someday someone will question why his name was down on some airfield or airport and yet not down in his log book. For which I suppose many a excuse may be put forward. However if it was in real-time electronic form, just as HMRC have all employers do their payroll, then there will be little room to invent an excuse.
Err are we forgetting the fact that cost sharing flights are OK even if the pilot pays just 1p?
So dodge pilot pays his 1p and rents an aircraft from his company at the wrong price. Or if you really wanted to be Charlie big time you could rent the aircraft owned by an offshore trust with nominee directors. Now how are you left searching for beneficial owners?? But that is to digress
So dodge pilot gets pinged by authority he says actually he was aware he was paying the wrong price for the PA46 but would you believe it the passenger was often happy to share a ride with him (they both share a common love of horse racing/ football/ motor racing/ business and often find themselves at the same place/time) but itbwas the passenger who insisted they fly in this overly expensive machine. Pax is happy to confirm same nonsense because he enjoys the cheap travel..
Or company gets paid the money from pax. Pilot pays in his bunch of 1p. At the time of being pinged you say thanks very much for highlighting the error and we issued a credit note to the pax.
So dodge pilot pays his 1p and rents an aircraft from his company at the wrong price. Or if you really wanted to be Charlie big time you could rent the aircraft owned by an offshore trust with nominee directors. Now how are you left searching for beneficial owners?? But that is to digress
So dodge pilot gets pinged by authority he says actually he was aware he was paying the wrong price for the PA46 but would you believe it the passenger was often happy to share a ride with him (they both share a common love of horse racing/ football/ motor racing/ business and often find themselves at the same place/time) but itbwas the passenger who insisted they fly in this overly expensive machine. Pax is happy to confirm same nonsense because he enjoys the cheap travel..
Or company gets paid the money from pax. Pilot pays in his bunch of 1p. At the time of being pinged you say thanks very much for highlighting the error and we issued a credit note to the pax.
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So in future maybe the determined will fly G reg? Or just transact via entitles that are offshore and outside of any scrutiny. Never in our lifetimes will you see aviation regulation contain reference to financial regulation because that really would just create more complications that aviation authority will have no experience or expertise and that usually merely opens up loop holes.
Recently we can read about a pilot in Ireland killing himself and photographer. The arrangement a multi year affair. The rules are already in existence we just either havent been looking or have turned a blind eye...
Recently we can read about a pilot in Ireland killing himself and photographer. The arrangement a multi year affair. The rules are already in existence we just either havent been looking or have turned a blind eye...
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So in future maybe the determined will fly G reg? Or just transact via entitles that are offshore and outside of any scrutiny. Never in our lifetimes will you see aviation regulation contain reference to financial regulation because that really would just create more complications that aviation authority will have no experience or expertise and that usually merely opens up loop holes.
Recently we can read about a pilot in Ireland killing himself and photographer. The arrangement a multi year affair. The rules are already in existence we just either havent been looking or have turned a blind eye...
Recently we can read about a pilot in Ireland killing himself and photographer. The arrangement a multi year affair. The rules are already in existence we just either havent been looking or have turned a blind eye...
I don`t know what lays ahead for the little left of mine, but looking back to the days when I had to read the holy book on it there were some references to things to do with finance.Here are some of the lessons from the 2016 version of the Gospel.
“direct cost” means the cost (excluding any element of profit) directly incurred in relation to a flight, including— (a) the cost of fuel; (b) any charges payable in respect of the use of any airfield in connection with the flight; or (c) any rental or hire fees for the use of the aircraft;
“annual cost”, in relation to the operation of an aircraft, means the cost (excluding any element of profit) of keeping, maintaining and operating the aircraft over the period of one year;
Unless I am mistaken, direct cost, cost, profit are financial terms. Wallet size comes into it for weight and balance calculation and perhaps after this event it may take on a much more serious meaning and added to the Gospel as another commandment.
Schedule 1
“annual cost”, in relation to the operation of an aircraft, means the cost (excluding any element of profit) of keeping, maintaining and operating the aircraft over the period of one year;
I have found all the info I was looking for on Dave Henderson and he is without doubt a very experienced long distance ferry pilot.
He has flown from the UK to Japan and similar ferry’s and there must be some sort of error on the FAA database which is why I could not find him.
I have no doubt that if he had flown Sala that night the tragedy would not have occurred.
He has flown from the UK to Japan and similar ferry’s and there must be some sort of error on the FAA database which is why I could not find him.
I have no doubt that if he had flown Sala that night the tragedy would not have occurred.
While not wishing to cast any aspersions on Henderson I think your confidence in experienced ferry pilots may be somewhat misplaced.
Ferrying, especially in singles, is a pretty high-risk business and right out on the edge of what most aviation safety thinking considers acceptable and in many cases goes way beyond that. Ferry pilots are by nature chancers, risk takers. That is as necessary for their job as it is in a fighter pilot, but are most definately not desireable traits in public transport operation.
That's not to say they can't operate public transport safely, just a pointer towards a ferry pilot's inclination with regard to risk compared to the norm.
Why on earth would anyone choose a ferrry pilot to fly their pax when there are so many experianced air-taxi pilots out there?
While not wishing to cast any aspersions on Henderson I think your confidence in experienced ferry pilots may be somewhat misplaced.
Ferrying, especially in singles, is a pretty high-risk business and right out on the edge of what most aviation safety thinking considers acceptable and in many cases goes way beyond that. Ferry pilots are by nature chancers, risk takers. That is as necessary for their job as it is in a fighter pilot, but are most definately not desireable traits in public transport operation.
That's not to say they can't operate public transport safely, just a pointer towards a ferry pilot's inclination with regard to risk compared to the norm.
Why on earth would anyone choose a ferrry pilot to fly their pax when there are so many experianced air-taxi pilots out there?
Ferrying, especially in singles, is a pretty high-risk business and right out on the edge of what most aviation safety thinking considers acceptable and in many cases goes way beyond that. Ferry pilots are by nature chancers, risk takers. That is as necessary for their job as it is in a fighter pilot, but are most definately not desireable traits in public transport operation.
That's not to say they can't operate public transport safely, just a pointer towards a ferry pilot's inclination with regard to risk compared to the norm.
Why on earth would anyone choose a ferrry pilot to fly their pax when there are so many experianced air-taxi pilots out there?
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We all know that flying is inherently risky. The ordinary GA pilot knows it. Pilots at all levels see it as part of their skill and practice to contain, minimise or avoid known risks.
Good Business Sense is being simply mischievous in pretending that the captains he knows (or knows of) have unacceptable and undesirable traits. By definition those airline pilots make a living from avoiding known risks. Who is he to tell them that, in seeking more pilotage risks to manage, they are exhibiting an undesirable trait ? GBS’s airline pilot feels professionally satisfied when, for instance, he believes that ATOPs procedures are well calculated and based on good probabilities. He is another character as a ferry pilot and would be another character if he should strip down and dress up for the Rio Carnival.
Megan wonders why Meleagertoo characterises ferry pilots as risk takers. If MLT invites challenge here, it is in seeing them as a group; judging almost any human activity in group terms is now illegitimate, useful as it often is. In any case I would have thought that ferry pilots are scarcely herdable in the way that cabin crew or allotment gardeners might be. Perhaps it is only PC righteousness that drives GBS.
That said there can be no doubt that risks to a ferry are increased just by the facts that (1) the pilot is likely to be unfamiliar with the aircraft (2) the ATC and Met environments are likely to be either less responsive or simply non-existent en-route than in the UK and (3) the terrain is likely to offer no escape over a large part of many routes in the event of a failure that could be managed in the UK. Each of those “likely” considerations could be (rather sketchily) quantified so that, while an ordinary GA flight might offer say 1-in-10000 mortal risk to GBS’s airline captain, a trans-Atlantic ferry flight might offer him an historic risk of perhaps 1-in-200 – both ratios being shamelessly plucked from the sky. A Cessna 152 engine failure is intrinsically survivable – but not in mid-Atlantic.
Good Business Sense is being simply mischievous in pretending that the captains he knows (or knows of) have unacceptable and undesirable traits. By definition those airline pilots make a living from avoiding known risks. Who is he to tell them that, in seeking more pilotage risks to manage, they are exhibiting an undesirable trait ? GBS’s airline pilot feels professionally satisfied when, for instance, he believes that ATOPs procedures are well calculated and based on good probabilities. He is another character as a ferry pilot and would be another character if he should strip down and dress up for the Rio Carnival.
Megan wonders why Meleagertoo characterises ferry pilots as risk takers. If MLT invites challenge here, it is in seeing them as a group; judging almost any human activity in group terms is now illegitimate, useful as it often is. In any case I would have thought that ferry pilots are scarcely herdable in the way that cabin crew or allotment gardeners might be. Perhaps it is only PC righteousness that drives GBS.
That said there can be no doubt that risks to a ferry are increased just by the facts that (1) the pilot is likely to be unfamiliar with the aircraft (2) the ATC and Met environments are likely to be either less responsive or simply non-existent en-route than in the UK and (3) the terrain is likely to offer no escape over a large part of many routes in the event of a failure that could be managed in the UK. Each of those “likely” considerations could be (rather sketchily) quantified so that, while an ordinary GA flight might offer say 1-in-10000 mortal risk to GBS’s airline captain, a trans-Atlantic ferry flight might offer him an historic risk of perhaps 1-in-200 – both ratios being shamelessly plucked from the sky. A Cessna 152 engine failure is intrinsically survivable – but not in mid-Atlantic.