Just found out EKH's CAA licence has expired and Chris is going to be grounded for the majority of the roar.
Anyone else have a booking with him within the next month?
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Just found out EKH's CAA licence has expired and Chris is going to be grounded for the majority of the roar.
Anyone else have a booking with him within the next month?
Heard that last week, bit of a fuck up.
mate was meant to fly in end of next week. they priced around and it was double so just waiting to here back from chris.
Does that mean that everyone booked to fly into a block with Chris will have to walk? Or will another operator be rubbing his hands together??
Holly crap thats a big balls up
Yes i got the "call" today, hopefully they can get it sorted by the 12th when i am due to fly
Hamish
Expired? I didn't think an Air Operating Certificate had an end date on it? Bit embarrassing if that's the case.
CAA have the bit between there teeth over heli operators at the moment.
It is absolutely no fault of Chris'. He started the audit/renewal process months ago, but he's struck a couple of absolute officious pricks in CAA along with a some new rules they're now decided they're going to operate under. Its all about the wording in his operating manuals - and Chris' are written by a guy who's been contracting to write CAA operating manuals for 10 years, and always had them passed before. Suddenly now these CAA auditors are being picky about some of the exact wording, and Chris and his contractor have been going backwards and forwards with CAA for months now, and still can't get them to sign it off. And in the meantime his operating license has expired.
Let's just say if Chris who is one of the most fastidious, law abiding and totally trust worthy operators I've ever come across can't get through his audit, lookout the operators still to be audited by these guys!
Goog on ya @GregD :thumbsup:
Im sure Chris can get it sorted.
Cheers
Pete
@VTR
What I can't work out is why they havnt got another operator in there taking the bookings for Chris. Must be a way around it. Temporary concession etc.
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That's a real bugger.
There has been a internal scrap in caa over the banning of pilots getting out of a idling helicopter. There are a few in there that wants it completely stopped. Like other country's.
Pete Avery will be flying for him anyway - No?
Thats a shitter, i flew in with him last year, class operator.....
A mate reckons it is all part of a huge conspiracy to stop us hunting :(
Ah well most of thos spots he flys to in the park are a days walk anyway
Yep. I have never had any issues leaving the seat while
It's idling.
Some in the caa want that practice banned. Those in the caa that have actual Commercial experience are against it.
Having to shutdown and start each time in the bush costs money in cycles in a turbine machine.
K, has there been an influx of auditors with only an ex military background into the department?
Sure has. But mostly overseas military also
Figured so, UK?
Yup
Whinging POM syndrome strikes again :(
No not that so much Pengy, more that general aviation and military aviation are just completely different worlds and typically don't mix well together. This is compounded by foreign preconceptions of best practice and lack of commercial grounding.
Would a overseas military pilot shut the machine down before troops can disembark in a war zone?
When flown in the USA, rotas come to a complete stop before disembarked,