Slice on the ground

Who said that slices* should be able to fly? Nobody! And more or less it turns out that they can't. Which, of course, is pity.

Ok! Slices cannot fly, but still they can't understand the way things work. This blog was thought to be only positive, and never negative, but from the time being I am not able to maintain this status.

Since I started this blog I have never wrote about normal flight training. As you probably know since then in my FTO there were two incidents. We were grounded for a month after the first one and only two days after resuming operations there came the second one. This happened on 11th of this month and now is the 26th, which gives half a month already waiting.

But why? Why are we waiting, since the last incident was not that serious? Well... we wait due to someone's lack of ability, or I do not know what, to run a small FTO in a small country.

What I understood is that CAA gave asked for a big inspection of the faulty engine before lifting the ban. For two weeks the FTO did nothing about it. In addition our second plane has some documentation problems, that could result in airworthiness loss.

Readers must know that I am not paying for my training, but the state does. I won my place in this by hard work and with a lot of competition. The money for the training come from the government which decided who gets the pie. For 12 years it was the same FTO. Our FTO. The unable FTO. The black sheep of FTO-s in Bulgaria.

Why this FTO gets the pie for over a decade? Ask the government! I believe it is time for change!

Waiting continues....

* You may ask why my nickname is Slice. Well I graduated English language highschool. It was only the first week of my first year there when we learned what the meaning of "slice of bread" was. Since my real name rhymes with the bulgarian word for slice of bread and is frequently assosiated to it, my classmates started calling me slice. For five years I was known as Slice and more or less this became my official nickname. I still use it on the net, although noone calls me like that anymore!