A346Dude wrote: ↑Sun Nov 25, 2018 9:54 pm
I'm not a member of any flying club, but I don't see how it's a good thing for GA in Canada if any of them get sued out of existence. I find it hard to believe that this one is beyond the pale with regards to recklessness and negligence, while the rest are all perfect and something like this could never, ever happen to them. Maybe I'm wrong.
First, of course I do not want to see flying clubs deteriorate in Canada.
I am talking about this case. Perhaps "sued out of existence" is a little harsh. But to see NO corrective action at all, I strongly disagree with.
3 very young people are dead, and it appears entirely preventable. That is what matters to me. It is all that should matter to anyone.
You're the same group that hammers unsafe 705's. This is infinitely worse in my view. There should be ZERO tolerance for unsafe FTU operations, because these are TEENAGERS!
TC has taken no action in this case (to my knowledge). Perhaps they have, and it's not public. If it's not public, how does that action effect change on the industry? (In regard to these "experience" trips, for example).
If they won't in a case like this, what is the standard for them to do so? Is it that wrong for the families to seek justice if it's denied them in any other way?
Absent TC -- the courts are an important corrective tool to effect change. This isn't a case with passengers stuck on a taxiway for 3 hours. It is not trivial or frivolous, although it appears my view there is in the minority. Teenage students dead. Too bad, so sad.
I don't understand this aversion to corrective action. Three young lives call for it.
I'm done here. Let's continue sending kids on night IMC flights in convective weather in basic trainers. All good.
Roll the dice, then.