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Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning
3rd Apr 2019, 17:36
Replies: 2
Views: 2,403
Posted By Burr Styers

Hi GD, I spent over 15 years working in...

Hi GD,

I spent over 15 years working in Safety and Quality, after taking medical retirement from flying. I am now pretty much retired from aviation, and looking back over the last 15 years or...
Forum: Middle East
31st Jan 2017, 14:10
Replies: 6
Views: 4,405
Posted By Burr Styers

FW1 I've pm'd you BS

FW1

I've pm'd you

BS
Forum: Middle East
31st Jan 2017, 12:28
Replies: 6
Views: 4,405
Posted By Burr Styers

Hi FW1 Did you mean the GCAA of UAE (up the...

Hi FW1

Did you mean the GCAA of UAE (up the road from Oman) or do you mean PACA of Oman. GCAA have a very good website btw.

I have recent AOC experience in Oman, and if that is where your...
Forum: Middle East
31st Jan 2017, 04:19
Replies: 6
Views: 4,405
Posted By Burr Styers

Hi Flingwing 1 Don't expect a reply back...

Hi Flingwing 1

Don't expect a reply back from PACA any time soon, they are notoriously un-communicative, and their website........... doesn't really meet todays expectation of a regulator. PACA...
Forum: Rotorheads
16th Feb 2016, 17:55
Replies: 14
Views: 2,933
Posted By Burr Styers

This is sad news indeed. Flew with Clive on some...

This is sad news indeed. Flew with Clive on some offshore gigs during the 90s when I was with Bond. One of lifes great characters, always the entrepeneur with some scheme or other that was going to...
Forum: Rotorheads
17th Sep 2014, 12:52
Replies: 10
Views: 2,824
Posted By Burr Styers

Avioandes in Ecuador - Flying single squirrels,...

Avioandes in Ecuador - Flying single squirrels, and a wide customer base.

BS
Forum: Rotorheads
26th Aug 2014, 21:53
Replies: 19
Views: 4,632
Posted By Burr Styers

Hi Lokto, I'm curious. Which company or...

Hi Lokto,

I'm curious. Which company or organisation do you work for, what is the reason for your interest, and given the wide range of answers that you have received, who is going to credited...
Forum: South Asia and the Far East
20th Apr 2014, 11:33
Replies: 18
Views: 8,812
Posted By Burr Styers

Hi Poppajo Singapore is a very difficult...

Hi Poppajo

Singapore is a very difficult place to operate an LCC, as the island is already over-served by existing native airlines. The Philipines and Indonesia have not worked out as expected,...
Forum: Rotorheads
12th Apr 2014, 10:44
Replies: 6
Views: 4,313
Posted By Burr Styers

Landers, The UK CAA has just recently...

Landers,

The UK CAA has just recently completed and published a complete review of North Sea helicopter operations, and safety thereof. It is available via the CAA website and what you are looking...
Forum: South Asia and the Far East
11th Apr 2014, 09:03
Replies: 403
Views: 462,838
Posted By Burr Styers

Further to the above, To be honest, if you don't...

Further to the above, To be honest, if you don't really want or need to go to Singapore, then why bother ?
Forum: South Asia and the Far East
10th Apr 2014, 18:58
Replies: 403
Views: 462,838
Posted By Burr Styers

Just some expat observations on 9V land.... ...

Just some expat observations on 9V land....

I left Singapore last year after having spent a while as an "expat" working in aviation there.
1. in Singapore you are not an expat........You are a...
Forum: South Asia and the Far East
28th Mar 2013, 14:15
Replies: 42
Views: 90,176
Posted By Burr Styers

Have to agree with Left Coaster. I'm an expat In...

Have to agree with Left Coaster. I'm an expat In the industry,working in 9V land. The winds of change are a blowing through the place, especially wrt to Europeans/Westerners. It is also now too...
Forum: Medical & Health
30th Nov 2012, 10:43
Replies: 159
Views: 32,344
Posted By Burr Styers

Glad to hear about the CKD2 bit, and the other...

Glad to hear about the CKD2 bit, and the other bit...... I kinda guessed that :\

No doubt statins is a topic that will run and run, and it certainly seems to polarise opinions with all...
Forum: Medical & Health
30th Nov 2012, 04:50
Replies: 159
Views: 32,344
Posted By Burr Styers

Homonculus, As one is also now CKD 2 (due...

Homonculus,

As one is also now CKD 2 (due to guess what), then I re-iterate, that the comments from a medical professional in a public forum regarding renal failure due to statins, appears to me,...
Forum: Medical & Health
29th Nov 2012, 13:53
Replies: 159
Views: 32,344
Posted By Burr Styers

Homonculus, Just looking back at your posts...

Homonculus,

Just looking back at your posts in this thread.......

Anyhow I thought everyone on statins died of renal failure before they could get down to the kitchen to get a grapefruit
...
Forum: Medical & Health
29th Nov 2012, 13:08
Replies: 159
Views: 32,344
Posted By Burr Styers

Homonculus, thankyou for sharing your...

Homonculus,

thankyou for sharing your thoughts. I do have genuine and great regard for all those in the medical profession, irrespective of their job title. This was not a swipe at GPs, but one...
Forum: Medical & Health
28th Nov 2012, 04:58
Replies: 159
Views: 32,344
Posted By Burr Styers

Statins, Yay or nay ?

I'm my case, retrospectively - Nay.

In 2001 as an active ATPL/H I had an inferior MI - which was a bit of a Buggah, .....as I eventually got medically retired and lost my ticket....at age 45....
Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning
2nd Aug 2012, 02:30
Replies: 6
Views: 3,270
Posted By Burr Styers

Chaps one and all, many thanks for your...

Chaps one and all,

many thanks for your responses and sharing your thoughts - interesting one eh. I (and I suspect pretty much anyone in a similar post) don't require further incentivisation, you...
Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning
26th Jul 2012, 09:19
Replies: 6
Views: 4,056
Posted By Burr Styers

Hi D744, you say ban most chemical...

Hi D744,

you say ban most chemical batteries, which ones would you allow ? Hot topic round here (SE Asia, and no pun intended). Fortunately our AOC forbids the carriage of D Goods, but that...
Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning
26th Jul 2012, 08:51
Replies: 8
Views: 5,618
Posted By Burr Styers

FW, Ah ha, see where you're coming from. I...

FW,

Ah ha, see where you're coming from. I have described how to perhaps arrange your SMS bits and pieces, so that it funtions in a practical sort of way. What you were looking for (and what I...
Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning
26th Jul 2012, 02:28
Replies: 8
Views: 5,618
Posted By Burr Styers

The great SMS conumdrum. Everyone can take a fair...

The great SMS conumdrum. Everyone can take a fair guess at describing safety and management, but in all the volumes of material produced over the last decade regarding Aviation SMS, I have yet to...
Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning
26th Jul 2012, 01:46
Replies: 6
Views: 3,270
Posted By Burr Styers

Salary incentivised safety ?

One for peeps currently employed in safety depts. In a new initiative to retain staff and incentivise them, my organisation recently asked me to come up with some safety milestones/KPIs etc so that...
Forum: Rotorheads
30th Jun 2012, 17:22
Replies: 75
Views: 13,239
Posted By Burr Styers

What stopped me from becoming an integral part of...

What stopped me from becoming an integral part of sovereign territory ?........Training ! Two parts to that. 1stly fixed wing stall training and recovery, (demonstrated and actual) and 2ndly rotary...
Forum: Rotorheads
30th Jun 2012, 17:08
Replies: 75
Views: 13,239
Posted By Burr Styers

.............Might have been.........it was a...

.............Might have been.........it was a long while ago.....
Forum: Rotorheads
29th Jun 2012, 09:30
Replies: 75
Views: 13,239
Posted By Burr Styers

As someone who has experienced VR for real, in...

As someone who has experienced VR for real, in the "I learnt about flying from that" bracket, I'll share this with you. My circumstances were coming to a free air hover, at around 2000ft agl, at near...
Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning
12th Mar 2012, 01:26
Replies: 9
Views: 4,523
Posted By Burr Styers

Also for clarity, and firms not soliciting for...

Also for clarity, and firms not soliciting for work on PP. I have been aware of the Gael organisation and their products for some years, I am currently reviewing my organisations safety requirements...
Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning
8th Mar 2012, 06:44
Replies: 9
Views: 4,523
Posted By Burr Styers

Hi FLann1gan I have reqested an online...

Hi FLann1gan

I have reqested an online demo. You going to be ok with a GMT +8 hours time difference ?

Currently we are scoping out what we actually need as an organisation, for all our...
Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning
11th Feb 2012, 06:27
Replies: 9
Views: 4,523
Posted By Burr Styers

Thanks GD. The descriptor list is one of its...

Thanks GD. The descriptor list is one of its weaknesses, and concur with the vague support, if you want an on site visit from them, that will be 1600 bucks a day !!

Looking at several other...
Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning
18th Dec 2011, 02:37
Replies: 36
Views: 13,271
Posted By Burr Styers

.....He's the gift that just keeps on giving. ;) ...

.....He's the gift that just keeps on giving. ;)

I'm sure many of the regular contributors will agree with his assertion of being........ "Well versed in the art and science of errors"

He does...
Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning
17th Dec 2011, 06:13
Replies: 36
Views: 13,271
Posted By Burr Styers

SM, Maybe if Douglas Bader were here today, ...

SM,

Maybe if Douglas Bader were here today, (and whose post war career you are well aware of ) had read what you have just posted, ......how do you think he would react ? ......and what would...
Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning
17th Dec 2011, 05:37
Replies: 36
Views: 13,271
Posted By Burr Styers

But still,.... a round of applause to appreciate...

But still,.... a round of applause to appreciate the tremendous work of those who are medically or otherwise retired airline professionals, who now work in, or head up all those airline safety depts...
Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning
17th Dec 2011, 05:26
Replies: 9
Views: 4,523
Posted By Burr Styers

Safety Databases

All

Our organisation is currently using AQD v6.1. Since March of this year when IE explorer was uploaded to V9, an increasing amount of our electronic contributers are now unable to submit safety...
Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning
17th Sep 2011, 16:22
Replies: 12
Views: 3,346
Posted By Burr Styers

FW1 My helicopter oath was " Lets pull pitch...

FW1

My helicopter oath was " Lets pull pitch and get the F*** outta here"

You will find kindered spirits in PPRUNe "Rotorheads" - but you probably knew that already.

Most fun with your...
Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning
17th Sep 2011, 04:35
Replies: 12
Views: 3,346
Posted By Burr Styers

Hi FW No probs, the location was from when I...

Hi FW

No probs, the location was from when I was living in another part of the world, praps I should update and call it "Hucking Fell - but with added palm trees", ........and beaches, and good...
Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning
16th Sep 2011, 12:17
Replies: 12
Views: 3,346
Posted By Burr Styers

Hi FW1 The best answer here is going to come...

Hi FW1

The best answer here is going to come from you. What you want to derive is a set of procedures for for a facility. (Call them SOPs if you want).

To be honest I've never had to...
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