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Thai Mechanics....
"Consider this. Thai mechanics for airliners, and Thai pilots, and Thai air traffic controllers"
Thai Aircraft Mechanics !!!! Man they gave me the run around! They were incapable of admitting that they didn’t know how to fix something’s…Fine, everyone runs into problems they can't solve – what annoyed me is when they would then deny there was a problem!
Too many instances – one when the undercarriage wouldn’t retract correctly, they then said it was my fault for using the “Up/Down” selector incorrectly - and for flying too fast!!! (I asked them what the max VLO speed was for the aircraft (Velocity for Landing gear operations) and they had no idea what I was talking about anyhow!)
They always wanted to save face, which was all too dangerous in aviation.
They would tell me that they maintained the aircraft in “the Thai way” or by “
the Thai style”…And silly me had always thought that mechalical equipment was oblivious to the culture in which they operated…I always thought an aeroplane had to be maintained in accordance with published directives based on time in operation! Oh well……
I never managed to get the rest of my head around the saving face concept and effectivly quit, to save my body and that of the paying public.
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