Originally Posted by
Paid2fly
No, it's not really a "very simple MEL"...The way it is written, it basically allows the company to use the MEL to get an A/C from an outstation back into a base which has MX available, to continue flying it after that point gets a little "gray". Also, I guess you've never flown into a station where it is impossible to get their ops to answer the radio, even after repeated calls(kind of hard to communicate with them). This can be especially true at non-company stations, but lately has also been an issue even trying to get ops to answer radio calls at some of our own stations!!!
Seems simple to me, but I'm willing to make reasonable accommodations to safely work around the occasional glitch. Call the station on the land-line before you leave (perfectly reasonable delay) or open the galley door when you get there to talk to them.
I would draw the line at normalized deviance, where the same problem recurs repeatedly over time. Maybe he saw the same problem too many times.