The new Miss Humphrey Appleby of the UK CAA
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Let's hope this pretender is better than the last pretender..
What will she do about the 20+ UKCAA issued EASA Part 66 aircraft maintenance licences issued in 2006 that STILL to this day do not have required conversion reports?
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What will she do about the 20+ UKCAA issued EASA Part 66 aircraft maintenance licences issued in 2006 that STILL to this day do not have required conversion reports?
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Originally Posted by Checkboard
His name is Randy Babbitt? Really? Oh well - current pilot training is very similar to the training that took place before automation came into prevalence. You don't lose "traditional pilot skills" (and by this I assume you mean hand-flying competence as opposed to, say, knowledge of astro-navigation) through training. You lose these skills through lack of on-line practice and that is the provision of company SOPs, not training programs - so Randy Babbitt doesn't know what he is talking about."
Well, that would have been my answer. Perhaps I should apply for the job?
Well, that would have been my answer. Perhaps I should apply for the job?
Before you so quickly jump to conclusions that you think you know something about, you might want to check on some of the relevant facts first.
Babbitt, the son of an airline pilot, was raised in Florida, attended the University of Georgia and the University of Miami before becoming an airline pilot, flying for Eastern Air Lines for 25 years, and served multiple roles within the Air Line Pilot’s Association, including Executive Administrator for 3 years and President for 8 years. After leaving ALPA Babbitt formed an airline management and financial consulting firm in Reston, Virginia, Eclat Consulting. In September 2007 the personnel of this company were merged into the Aircraft Management division of Oliver Wyman.
No one knows everything - but I would suspect that Mr. Babbitt knows at least as much about aviation and pilot training, including the skill levels involved and their current condition, as many regular posters on this thread.
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Mind you the lady is very good looking and this automatically excuses her obtuse and mangled reply to the question:
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Beauty is after all in the eye of the beholder. Some Cabinet members thought Maggie was sexy
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I guess the real new Sir Humphrey is CAA Chairman Dame Deirdre Hutton who gets paid £130,000 a year for a 2 day week.
Equivalent to £325K for a 5 day week.
How much does the Prime Minister of Britain get?
Equivalent to £325K for a 5 day week.
How much does the Prime Minister of Britain get?
I've had the pleasure of meeting Ms Burrett in a few meetings recently, and t'is true that she is quite attractive. On paper, she is certainly a very impressive aviation safety professional - which to my mind makes her a huge and useful contrast to Andrew Haines, CAA's Chief Executive who seems to know virtually nothing about aviation and in my opinion really shouldn't be in that job.
Also however, I was very surprised at her virtual invisibility in the recent volcanic entertainment - given her prominent role and safety background, I'd really have expected to see and hear a lot more of her than we did. To be fair, she was brand new in the job and we were all desperately trying to understand what was going on, so she may simply have been standing back and letting a few very competent people in her organisation get on with it.
On net, I think that my personal jury is still out, but I suspect that I'm going to decide as she goes along that she is much more useful to UK aviation than Andrew Haines.
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Also however, I was very surprised at her virtual invisibility in the recent volcanic entertainment - given her prominent role and safety background, I'd really have expected to see and hear a lot more of her than we did. To be fair, she was brand new in the job and we were all desperately trying to understand what was going on, so she may simply have been standing back and letting a few very competent people in her organisation get on with it.
On net, I think that my personal jury is still out, but I suspect that I'm going to decide as she goes along that she is much more useful to UK aviation than Andrew Haines.
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Haines- who he?
Now would that be the same Andrew Haines who has made it to being cited in content on the Letters page of Flight International this week...
Would that be the same CAA decision that Sir Richard Branson called "crass and stupid" in an interview with ITV Meridan's Mike Pearce a week of three ago...
Would that be the same CAA decision that Lufthansa's CEO told Berliner Zeitung was 'astounding' in its lack of reference to LH's airborne test flight outcome findings.
You know, I think it might.....
This one will run and run.
Would that be the same CAA decision that Sir Richard Branson called "crass and stupid" in an interview with ITV Meridan's Mike Pearce a week of three ago...
Would that be the same CAA decision that Lufthansa's CEO told Berliner Zeitung was 'astounding' in its lack of reference to LH's airborne test flight outcome findings.
You know, I think it might.....
This one will run and run.
That will be the single Lufthansa flight that carried no cloud particle instrumentation capable of measuring ash concentration better than +/- an order of magnitude presumably? Or will it be the Airbus test flight in Lufthansa markings which carried no cloud particle instrumentation at-all, so they only ever knew where they were on the black/red/white map, but never if they were actually in any of the concentrated ash layers?
On the whole, I don't think I'd have used data from a couple of gash "test" flights where you really didn't have more than a very vague idea of whether they were in the ash or not either.
Whilst I may not have a desperately high opinion of Andrew Haines appointment, he's not actually malicious or stupid, is trying hard to get it right, and some of the people working for him really are quite clever (certainly a lot cleverer than some of the continental behaviour I've witnessed over the last couple of months.)
A certain aviation boffin of my acquaintance was interviewed repeatedly for BBC news about Sir Richard's comments, strangely when he consistently refused to say anything other than it was hardly surprising that Virgin were frustrated, but that everybody had to treat safety as paramount, they never used it.
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On the whole, I don't think I'd have used data from a couple of gash "test" flights where you really didn't have more than a very vague idea of whether they were in the ash or not either.
Whilst I may not have a desperately high opinion of Andrew Haines appointment, he's not actually malicious or stupid, is trying hard to get it right, and some of the people working for him really are quite clever (certainly a lot cleverer than some of the continental behaviour I've witnessed over the last couple of months.)
A certain aviation boffin of my acquaintance was interviewed repeatedly for BBC news about Sir Richard's comments, strangely when he consistently refused to say anything other than it was hardly surprising that Virgin were frustrated, but that everybody had to treat safety as paramount, they never used it.
G
