how safe are these aircrafts
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Ireland
Posts: 9
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I have a question, which may or may not be relevant.
I commute frequenty by air, and do around 2 sectors per week (out of about 6) on an ATR. Recently a report was published on an incident involving the airline I use where, as a matter of airline culture, it seems pilots had taken to reporting tech faults by word of mouth, rather than reporting in the tech log. The upshot was they flew several sectors with a fuel gauge problem and managed to come pretty close to running out of fuel.
http://www.aaiu.ie/AAIUviewitem.asp?...g=ENG&loc=1652
My problem with this incident is not the actions of the pilots, who are human beings and who have no desire to put themselves deliberately in danger, but rather the company culture putting pressure on people to cut costs and delays to the point where people are pressured into taking more risks.
My question is therefore related to the checks and balances that exist to counter this pressure. Is there any comeback from the various government and European aviation agencies against the company for this type of practice, or does it operate more on a principal that in good faith everybody in the industry will work always to improve safety in everything they do.
I know that under the current system, flying has become statistically, by a very long way, the safest way of travelling; however, my worry is that in the new climate of fierce competition, lower and lower ticket prices, and high fuel costs, the pressures are mounting to tip the balance the other way.
I commute frequenty by air, and do around 2 sectors per week (out of about 6) on an ATR. Recently a report was published on an incident involving the airline I use where, as a matter of airline culture, it seems pilots had taken to reporting tech faults by word of mouth, rather than reporting in the tech log. The upshot was they flew several sectors with a fuel gauge problem and managed to come pretty close to running out of fuel.
http://www.aaiu.ie/AAIUviewitem.asp?...g=ENG&loc=1652
My problem with this incident is not the actions of the pilots, who are human beings and who have no desire to put themselves deliberately in danger, but rather the company culture putting pressure on people to cut costs and delays to the point where people are pressured into taking more risks.
My question is therefore related to the checks and balances that exist to counter this pressure. Is there any comeback from the various government and European aviation agencies against the company for this type of practice, or does it operate more on a principal that in good faith everybody in the industry will work always to improve safety in everything they do.
I know that under the current system, flying has become statistically, by a very long way, the safest way of travelling; however, my worry is that in the new climate of fierce competition, lower and lower ticket prices, and high fuel costs, the pressures are mounting to tip the balance the other way.
