“Good seamanship is recovering from an incident at sea. Great seamanship is avoiding an incident at sea.”
airmanship
Sometimes airmanship is not flying
The US Department of Labor recently released an order with a rare win for an individual pilot against a large corporation. They are requiring that Air Methods (who operate over 400 helicopters) pay the pilot employee about $160,000 in lost pay and damages after he refused to fly a mission because of an airworthiness issue (the emergency locator transmitter that was not functioning properly). They placed him on administrative leave the day after the event, and fired him about a month later. Now they have to reinstate the pilot, and educate all their workers on their whistleblower rights. “Pilots should never … Continue reading Sometimes airmanship is not flying