A final note. Certain people feel that by pledging their loyalty to a person, process or company they will somehow buy goodwill that will magically keep them out of trouble. I believe to some degree Tony formally was like this. There are many over on the Sapa board right now like this. There you are required to post with your real name causing truth and real opinions (unless you are a "company man") to be greatly reduced for fear of who is reading or who will be reading when someone passes comments on to managers as has happened from time to time in the past. Some of these suckups come to the rescue of questionable characters with power/authority, people such as this check airman that failed Tony (those who are not afraid to speak up would say this check airman has an inconsistant and spotty reputation, others who are close friends or have other motives will back him to the bitter end). They do this publicly where the person in question can see their devotion hoping it will buy them some immunity or keep them out of harms way with respect to said rogue checkairman. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.

There will always be butt kissers. I know the check airman that failed Tony and he is a Jekyll/Hyde type as is the case with several "bad" check airman that have no business in their respective positions and should have been removed long ago. TonyF is another good example of this type of person...throwing the ax around far too easily unchecked. It sort of caught up with TonyF but most go unchecked with no checks and balances or oversights (oversight availble with a union I might add). I went to sim once with the check airman who "administered" Tony William's his last Skywest checkride and although he didn’t mess with me I saw him call the guy with me a liar regarding methodology to his face. Totally out of line and unjustified based upon what I observed and knew about this guy. Just be aware that each person at skywest is looking out for number one. The guys that try to stick their necks out over there to help themselves and those around them seem to fight an impossible battle. Good luck to those people who have principal and are still trying to improve things for all.