Freewheel Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 Imagine if we gave pilots "a few weeks" to answer every basic regulatory question on the Indoctrination exam... Response from Sean Borg, Standards Branch, received 15 minutes after the email was sent: Hi, Hope all is well. I would like to consult with my colleagues on this one, and get back to you in a few weeks. Take care, spb Sean Borg Standards Branch, Civil Aviation Direction des normes, Aviation civile Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freewheel Posted October 22, 2015 Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 Hi Sean, Do what you need to do. I will continue our exercise distributing to industry stakeholders and TC officials in other regions. In my opinion requiring a few weeks to respond to such basic regulatory questions seems odd to me, particularly that this issue has been identified by TC for years. We don't give pilots a few weeks to answer such basic exam questions. Most of our pilots responded within 24 hours. If Transport Canada can't answer such basic questions, this points to much larger issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R0T0R Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 I agree with you Freewheel. I actually met one of your "buddies" at YSB the other day and I understand why he's not allowed at your hangar any more. They need to have a long hard look at why they are there and start working with us, not against.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freewheel Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 I don't know what you've heard. There is no one at Transport Canada that is "not allowed at our hangar". We have requested a change of inspectors in the past, and we received a new inspector. Of course, according to his superiors it had nothing to do with my request just part of a general "shuffling" of inspectors and operators. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freewheel Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 How come there are no answers to my questions from those of you in the "Flight Time = Air Time" camp? I know you're out there. Just need to go back in the forum to see numerous pilots arguing Flight Time = Air time. Why not take part? As I said: No Judging. Just looking for input. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freewheel Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 So far general consensus from respondents seems to be that flight time should be calculated in accordance with ICAO definition for flight for helicopters, and GAPL 2005-02. TC cancelled GAPL 2005-02 with no explanation in 2011 which ultimately led to the creation of this forum by a confused pilot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freewheel Posted October 24, 2015 Report Share Posted October 24, 2015 Here is something to consider that was brought to my attention by a respondent. Does anyone feel that Air time isn't 0.6 in Q1? The respondent feels that a pilot using 0.6 for the air time in this example is understating the actual air time. He is concerned that this will lead to premature failure of components and that the manufacturers TBOs are based on some other method. He states: "Don't forget it's all about making sure maintenance is done before failure. That's all TC should be concerned with. If you prove that operators are not logging enough time, that's a big hazard. Doing it differently is no hazard if the time logged is never less than the designer expected...If the rules change, the TBOs need to change. Use needs to match design." The answer this respondent provided was flight time = 1.0 air time = 1.0. He also states: In every case for a skid type helicopter flight time and air time are equal. Comments? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helilog56 Posted October 24, 2015 Report Share Posted October 24, 2015 Interesting enough....not according to some manufacturers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bs205 Posted October 24, 2015 Report Share Posted October 24, 2015 I have never worked anywhere in 15 years where flight time and air time were equal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freewheel Posted October 24, 2015 Report Share Posted October 24, 2015 Interesting enough....not according to some manufacturers. I have circulated this email along with 2 multiple choice questions to a few manfacture representative and will be circulating further next week. Maybe they will oblige us with response. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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