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05-31-2006 | 02:22 PM

flyerNy

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Is the maintenance at Colgan Air crap? I read a post that said so somewhere.

05-31-2006 | 03:23 PM

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HAHAH thats funny well I have been there for 7 months and yes there are a lot of MEL's and the SAABS do break a lot but all in all they do a pretty good job, just make sure to do a thorough pre-flight when they come out of heavy checks! today our nosehwheel steering was MEL'd heheeh that was fun!

05-31-2006 | 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by flyerNy

Is the maintenance at Colgan Air crap? I read a post that said so somewhere.

Colgan had some problems back in "the old days". But that has been pretty well cleaned up. Our Saabs are old - average about 30000 hours per aircraft. But the company stays on top of them pretty good. I've noticed in the last year that fewer MEL's run to expiration. I just looked back at my flight records. In the past 12 months I've had to cancel just five flights for a mx problem and delay a total of 19 more than 10 minutes. That's out of a little over 750 flights. What's that...24/750 or 3.2%. I don't know how that relates to everyone else...I have twice as many wx cancels and delays.

Some of the guys who are based at the mx bases complain a little louder because they get stuck with the test and ferry flights that are normal to any airline operation.

06-02-2006 | 06:00 PM

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it's getting much better...

If I have to ferry something they always ask if I feel comfortable with it first. If your not say no. I've said no and I still work here but most of the ferry flights are for stupid things like windshield wipers.