Not all S. Florida operators are scumbags, just most of them. The worst part is that the feds don't do anything about the scumbags
You hit the nail on the head.
All the dirtbag operators get a pass. Ones that have multiple crashes, certificate owners who run drugs and serve time, companies and certificate owners who blatantly break regs.........they all get away with it no problem at all.
Very wierd.
Not to mention pilots down here....they get away with murder too for some reason
I know a guy who got caught 2 times flying a jet without a type-rating, Lear 60...nothing has happened to him in 5 years so far. (and no, his co-pilot was not typed).
Or a guy that some of you may know who's been caught flying a Lear by himself a few times and they do nothing to him. FAA watched him leave the ramp and taxi out once too.
I know of a few pilots that have 3 or more DUI's in the past 8-9 years, no problem, the letter from the FAA basically says, "just don't do it again."
134.5....guys get caught all the time down here in prop planes and jets....nothing ever happens. Yet, my friend who is duddly do-right by the book and owns a 135 certificate (small piston operation) gets grilled for 4 hours by the jerk-off Customs guys in Miami over a flight that was 91, and they kept wanting him to admit it was 135. Customs finally let him go.
Kind of funny really. The FAA down here is just a bunch of morons.
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