Scary

[fubar57]

Air Canada captain piloted more than 900 flights without proper licence: police

TORONTO — A former Air Canada pilot has been charged in a "complex" fraud and forgery investigation, police said Tuesday, accusing him of using a bogus licence to captain hundreds of flights during a lengthy career based out of Canada's busiest airpo

www.prpeak.com

 

[MIflyer]

The Florida Dept of Transportation says that 25% of those out driving have no insurance.

At the Sun and Fun Airshow about 30 years ago a Cessna 172 crashed while attempting to land, killing all four people on board. Investigation revealed that the pilot had no pilot's license and never had one. That might explain why the 172 crashed, the airplane being known as "a three seat airplane with four seats."

So at least that fake airline driver had a copilot.

 

[cammerjeff]

Not to condone his actions, but it is not like he did not have a Commercial Pilots License, from reading the article he is a fully licensed Commercial First officer in type. But did not have the final qualifications to rate him as a Captain.

It reminds me of what one of my favorite collage professors once told me. That at least 10% of all people doing any job have no business actually performing it. And he included Professors, Doctors, Police officers, and Pilots. It always stuck with me. But ultimately you have to trust the system to police itself. I found it mostly worked in Aviation in my experience, but sometimes takes longer than it should. Sometimes much longer.

In this case the system did catch up, but years after it should have. I have found that individuals that this apply to, usually have political of financial influence over the organizations that let it "slide". In one case the son of a highly respected former CEO of the company, and he flew for the small airline for years, with no issues, a natural Pilot, the only problem was he never finished his commercial pilot training. The issue was finally uncovered when they went to promote him to Captain. And a routine paperwork check found issues.

It was covered up quietly, he was fired, and reported to the FAA. I do not know what happened after that. This was in the 1980's so it was a different time.

 

[special ed]

Once again, refer to the book, "The Peter Principle".

 

[Howard Gibson]

Once again, refer to the book, "The Peter Principle".

I read the Peter Principle back when I was about fourteen. The Peter principle itself states that we all rise to our level of incompetence. Later on in the book, he states that competence is in the eye of the beholder, which in my opinion, negates the first principle, or at least,, creates a wide range of possibilities.

 

[Lucky13]

Catch Me If You Can popped up in my mind....

 

[MIflyer]

Later on in the book, he states that competence is in the eye of the beholder,

In my USAF experience, an organization where the administrative types are happy is one in which the operational people (on the shop floor, at the console, at the drawing board, turning the wrenches, etc.) are unhappy. And vice versa.

The admin types KNOW that getting inputs for the Weekly Activity Report in NLT 0900 on Monday is THE MOST IMPORTANT thing to do that day, and their ability to enforce that requirement is VITAL. Turning to them and saying, "We are real busy right now. We won't be able to get that done." makes them very angry.