HARV'S AIR SHUT DOWN!

[Hedley]

Food for thought: there are a lot of pretty crappy FTU's out
there with great paper. Harv's air is not one of them

When you get a bit more experience, you realize that there
are in fact two completely separate and different worlds: the
paper world, and the real world. The two are only very loosely
coupled.

For example, you can have an aircraft with excellent
paperwork that is going to cause you a lot of maintenance
trouble in the near future.

And, you can have a mechanically excellent aircraft
that is a paperwork nightmare (lost logbooks, 337's
that Transport doesn't like, etc).

It's very important not to confuse paperwork with
reality. Don't get me wrong, you must have good
paper, but I have been flying for over 30 years and
have yet to meet an airplane that could read

[Big Pistons Forever]

Regulators tend to regulate to the lowest common denominator. A lot of of the heavy handed onerous maintainance regulation arose because a few operators deliberately chose to operate in an unsafe manner by pencil whipping logs, ignoring AD's etc etc. TC after having their nose rubbed into it too many times is taking a very hard line and thus everybody suffers including the good guys who are genuinely trying to do right, like Harv's air. But pilots are part of the problem too. The renter pilots that rent from shady operators because they are $ 5 cheaper, and commercial pilots who don't write up snags and look the other way when the log book is full of bogus entries also had a part to play in getting us to the situation we are in now. I am not saying TC hasn't gone overboard because I think they have, just that it isn't only TC who are the problem here.