Originally Posted by
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You are wrong. Consider this. Does ALPA file ASAP reports for you or is that the legal function of the certificated airman? If you violate a FAR and you get in trouble, is ALPA's non-existent certificate on the line, or is yours? Remember you work in a profession that has multiple layers of jurisdiction, some legal, some simply company policy (which mean nothing).
ALPA has it's role, as does each individual certificated airman. It's a matter of jurisdiction. MEC guidance is to follow SOP. Using ASAP or the FAA Hotline (the better option) is not just SOP, it's within the law.
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That is what bothers me about people being called in for logbook writeups. They were simply following SOP.
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The reality with this scenario is the juicers who for years carried and carried MEL’s in violation of the FOM and FAR’s just recently decided to start doing their job. These juicers then decided to go out of their way to document EVERY discrepancy they could find. The company choose to question what they were doing since they had a pattern of never writing anything up. Some idiots you just can’t help and unfortunately the jetblue pilot group has more than most.