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