About Good Pilots and Bad Pilots

Truth is, whether government or airlines, or just the repair
station on the field, maintenance depends on budget and
ethics. Some people won't spend the money and have no
ethics.
Scheduled 121 and 135 are one type of operation, on-demand
135 is another. Part 91 owner flown and part 91
professionally flown is also another. A owner with
knowledge, perhaps a pilot perhaps not is one thing, an
owner with only money and a cheap shop without ethics may be
very happy with his airplane [ for a while] but the cost of
an airplane and the quality of a mechanic, pilot or other,
depends on everybody really doing their job at the highest
possible standard.

Just to tell you about one incident I was personally
involved with years ago... a part 135 mail/freight operator
with a Beech 58 Baron put his airplane in our heated hanger
to remove about 2 inches of ice from the storm that had gone
through over night. I saw the airplane in the hanger and a
quick external check showed these conditions...
The rubber on the tail deice boots was gone, just fabric
left, both sides.
The deice boots on the wings had many large holes and tears
The left engine cowling was burned and warped from the heat
of the fire, there was oil dripping from the cowling and it
appeared to have been on burned.
The anti-ice elements on the props were partially detached.
Tires were flat spotted with cord showing.

The plane left that night even though the FAA did see it,
but the FAA went home at 4:30.


--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

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"John Gaquin" wrote in message
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| "Jim Macklin" wrote
in message
| The 121 pilots have a full support staff to help with
flight
| planning and a crew to bring and serve the coffee. The
135
| charter pilot has the best and worst job, gets paid to
fly
| pretty good airplanes but has to carry the luggage, do
all
| the flight planning, brew and serve the coffee, and
clean
| the potty.
|
| Essentially accurate, although you've selected the
grandest of 121 for
| comparison against the worst of 135 (Pt 121 freighters
don't have anyone to
| prepare your meals or coffee, and I've flown for excellent
Pt 135 airlines
| that used canned flight plans and had people to load the
luggage, even on
| planes so small they had no coffeemaker or head). Having
done both, I can
| see this, but others may be misled. The overarching point
is that your
| earlier comments were unconnected. In my earlier post, I
acknowledged that
| my good dose of good luck had a lot to do with
"...professional airline
| maintenance staff and required routine maintenance...", to
which you replied
| with cautions about owners not allowing mechanics to fix
things due to
| expense, etc., etc. These things can and do occur among
the amateurs and
| the lower order of commercial operators, but I think my
post was pretty
| clear in that I was referring to the airline environment.
|
|

"Jim Macklin" wrote in message
news:K8nKf.101008$4l5.24143@dukeread05...

Did I miss something somewhere, Jim? Why do you continue to belabor this
unrelated point? I offered kudos to the airline maintenance people that
contributed to my overall career safety, and you responded by commenting
that unscrupulous amateurs often scrimp on maintenance. Not only does this
have no bearing on my original comment, but it is a fact well known to all
that needs no further demonstration. What am I missing here?