Pinnacle gets a $1 mln fine

[JAFI]

It does all have to do with what the manufacturer and approved FAA procedures dictate. It is when you get outside of that you run into trouble.

There are many regional aircraft that have been "changed" from some other operation to run more hours or legs per day than what the aircraft was designed to do. That is suppose to be in the maintenance program as the maintenance CASS (not the jumpseat program) and is suppose to catch and correct.

 

[kmox29]

I guess when the FAA can't or won't actually go after real safety issues, like crew fatigue...

Crew fatigue is being addressed by the FAA.

On August 1, 2010, the President signed Public Law (PL) 111-216 (titled the Airline Safety and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Extension Act of 2010), which focuses on improving aviation safety. Section 212(b) of the Act requires each air carrier conducting operations under Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) part 121 to develop, implement, and maintain a Fatigue Risk Management Plan (FRMP)

Does your operator not allow you to call in when you're fatigued? If not, then I would file a FAA Safety Hotline report: http://www.faa.gov/contact/safety_hotline/

...disallowing certain MEL items (TCAS in high density traffic areas like SoCal)...

An air carrier's MEL is approved by each CHDO (based on the MMEL). If you feel that flying around SoCal without TCAS is a "real safety issue", you need to bring that up to your management. If they don't respond, your FAA CHDO.

...they try to show they're "doing something" with this kind of BS.

So the FAA should have ignored this?

 

[Raoul Duke]

this civil penalty looks like a total joke. my guess is PNCL pays less than 10K for these.