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Business & Commercial Aviation 2010-08-01

DOM Notebook

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Integrity Under Pressure

Aug 01, 2010
Several decades ago, when I was a student at A&P school, we had to take a professional ethics course. It was just one credit hour, pass/fail with no tests. Most of the course was based on real life incidents where technicians cut corners and cost people their lives. We watched endless slides of carnage and destruction, always ending in a summary of the primary cause — the mechanic messed up. Careless mistakes or willful disregard of the manual led to lives lost, technicians losing their license and earning a lifetime of regret and shame.

Operations

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Operating in Mexico

Aug 01, 2010
Not that long ago, it was a challenge to operate a business jet in Mexico. There were few FBOs, ground support was sporadic — at outlying airports, nonexistent — and getting anything seemed to take forever. Even in the few cases where handling agents were available, permits and authorizations had to be walked through multiple offices by flight crews.