Pressured to fly un-airworthy aircraft?
I'd like to share a story of the general culture at my employer and see if any of the other CFIs on here have experienced the same thing.
I work at a place where the attitude of the mx guys is pretty much "don't bother us unless the plane won't start and/or some piece is falling off". I've been strongly "encouraged" by mx not to write up things such as burned out lights, seats that come off tracks, questionable tires/brakes, etc... presumably because they didn't feel like going out to do the work.
My employer doesn't take well to CFI screw-ups, seems to be quite trigger happy with firing people, and has been known to hang the CFI out to dry when FAA questions come up. Because of the above, I've stopped playing the "oh... it must have broken during the flight" game.
If my student or I find anything wrong on the pre-flight, it gets written up and fixed, or we cancel the flight and go another day. I have no interest in putting my ticket on the line to avoid taking a delay or cancellation. Typically, mx will come out, complain the entire time about how we shouldn't have written X up, and then fix it.
Does anyone else have similar experiences doing CFI work? Or is this limited to my employer?