Hawker Down near AKR

Derg said:
If they just didn't learn on a G1000 172...
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Lol. Last time I flew on I was doing an IPC/FR for a friend. I was completely lost in that thing. I knew where to look to make sure he was doing things right flying wise, but actually squaking a code, or switching a frequency, no freaking clue. And I have about 500hrs in G1000/Perspective stuff, years past. Amazing how quick things get filed way back in the cabinet. Not sure I'd even trust myself in a piston single right now.
 
Bamaaviator said:
The article a few posts above is further proof for me to stay away from 135
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This company does not represent all 135 operators. I worked for a great 135 operator in South Florida. The DO was actually featured in an NBAA article for how well he dealt with abiding by the rest rules. You just have to do your research before applying to some of these jobs. With all the info out here today on most of these companies via social media, it's to identify the bad operators. Now there are some that try to change their name to re-energize their image every once in a while. But they are easily identifiable. I believe that Execuflight may try this in the near future. You just have to be on the lookout for it.
 
My experience was poor maintenance, pencil-whipped documentation, and a management that LOVED the DOM like a son they never had so complaints were dealt with severely....

Also, while in So FL, the owner was one of the most shady characters I've ever met....didn't matter who he screwed over as long as he made a few dollars.
 
Does anyone have any serious understanding of the effectiveness of "certification" organizations such as ARGUS, etc? Are they valuable or just another expensive marketing tool? It seems to me all they really do is actually check up on items that the FAA should be checking up on anyway. The focus of their reviews or audits or what have you by and large seems to be aimed backwards toward historical safety records, etc. This likely tells us something, but perhaps not a great deal as future performance is not necessarily related to past results, especially amid periods of tumult and turnover in an industry. (This can be really significant at small firms. Airlines have entire organization structures to deal with and fill in for lost personnel. Small firms are sometimes completely reliant on Verne or Clem or some other GOBOB. At a couple firms I've had personal knowledge of, when the good mechanic was there the fleet hummed and pilots felt very confident. When he left, not so much, but the same official paperwork still got completed, so externally nothing would appear any different.) Is anyone scratching his noggin at the value of the information provided by such organizations? It strikes me that most, if not all the information they provide is freely available to anyone willing to look. Granted, there is some value in an easy check of someone else's compilation of the data... but only if that data serves as valid information and tells you something reliable. Does it? Perhaps simply being enrolled one of these programs tells us the firm is profitable enough to pay the audit fee, which tells us something, I suppose. But it doesn't tell us where, specifically, the rest of the cash laying around is being spent.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
What would be the horror stories for an operator like that? Just curious, I never did any 135 stuff.
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Some examples are no duty rest rules, or rest is written in pencil so it can be adjusted as needed. "How were your days off?" "what days off?" "You didn't fly for two days, so that was your rest."

Questionable maintenance or inspections never performed but were signed off. "Yeah, I know the ACM is on fire, but could you write it up when you get back to base?"

Falsifying flight times and training records. One operation was busted for doing a PIC check in the airplane, on a date which the airplane was on jacks undergoing a heavy check.

Little or no training program. New hires get a checklist and "three bounces" then told not to touch anything but the radio.

Running a trip as 91 even though it is 135 to circumvent rest rules.


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