Glad to.True North wrote:Please enlighten me.
In a mom and pop float service there's a mistake in one of their operating procedures so mom sits down at her computer in the evening and changes it. Presto-chango it's done.
In a large airline you have to first:
a) Convince the person with the power to change the SOP that it needs changing, then;
b) You have to convince that person the change needs to happen quickly, then;
c) That person has to consult their fleet training/checking and standards to see if there are unforeseen reasons to not change it, then;
d) The change has to be measured for consistency against the rest of the fleets because in a large company you want to make individual fleet SOP's as consistent as possible, then;
e) The change has to be wordsmithed to match the intent, then;
f) Transport Canada has to approve the change, then;
g) The change has to be communicated to the crews, possibly with an activation date depending on the nature of the change.
By the time all that's done the mom and pop place has gone out of business.