Originally Posted by
PW305
Eric,
As the person that updates and maintains both ARG/US and Wyvern accounts at my company I have to disagree.
Were there any training, management or operational problems at Global Exec Aviation where a captain with 35 hours in the LR60 was sent out and reacted poorly to a tire failure approaching V1? Sadly, the captain and 3 others were killed. Global Exec immediately became 'unrated' by ARG/US but was GOLD rated 6 months later and I believe is GOLD+ now.
Do you think there is anything wrong with that?
Again PW305, yes, there's something wrong with "that." People keep thinking ARG/US -Wyvern and the like certify individual pilots. They don't. They certify a company's "operations". One pilot's action in itself doesn't make an entire operation lose their certification. It very well might trigger an operational audit that may uncover systemic deficiencies that could certainly lead to pulling a certification! But you can't keep trying to attach single failures as a complete failure of a rating system.
#1 Was she properly rated and qualified to fly that trip as per standards set forth by the FAA? Yes.
#2 Did she hit the brakes when she should have hit the throttles? Yes.
#3 Was she trained to take that action? No.
#4 Did she have the experience to be PIC of that flight? See#1
The world of political correctness, which often puts inexperience and perhaps bad judgement ahead of common sense should be the subject tag line.
But common sense no longer reigns in our society. For you, an air carrier, or yes, even a rating company, to say an individual pilot can't be upgraded or assigned a trip based on something as trivial as good judgment and experience, will just get you thrown out of business in 2 blinks of an eye today!