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Officers sleep inn phoenix north of Fort Lauderdale-based Gulfstream International Airlines are preparing their response to a $1.3 million myrtle beach hotel reviews fine by federal overseers, who claim the company improperly scheduled flight crews and violated other aviation rules.
In response to the FAA findings, Gulfstream President myrtle beach hotel reviews and CEO David Hackett said that in a couple of "extremely isolated instances," records show scheduling discrepancies that were the result of "human error."
In the agency's review of Gulfstream records, inspectors found discrepancies between company's electronic sleep inn phoenix north record-keeping system and aircraft logbooks for hours worked by crew from October 2007 to June 2008.
In some cases, the electronic record-keeping and aircraft logbooks did not agree, but the FAA maintains myrtle beach hotel reviews that both showed First Officer Nicholas Paria was to work more than 35 hours between Dec. 4 and Dec. 10, 2007.
FAA regulations prohibit pilots from flying more than 34 hours in any seven consecutive days. Pilots also must have at least 24 consecutive hours of rest between a scheduled block of seven consecutive myrtle beach hotel reviews work days.
Laura Brown, sleep inn phoenix myrtle beach hotel reviews north an FAA spokeswoman, sleep inn phoenix north said the agency has no evidence the airline deliberately made record-keeping errors. But the errors make it impossible to prove Gulfstream pilots followed FAA work rules, she said. In its May investigation report, the agency noted a total of six pilots whose rest times had been violated, and hundreds of discrepancies in flight-time records from a June 2008 inspection.
sleep inn phoenix north Regional airlines have to balance the cost of fueling and maintaining aircraft but with fewer seats filled by paying passengers sleep inn phoenix north than major airlines, said Robert Gandt, a former Delta and Pan Am pilot and the author of several sleep inn phoenix north books on aviation.
Former Gulfstream pilot Kenny Edwards says he was fired in December 2007 for refusing myrtle beach hotel reviews to fly a Gulfstream aircraft he considered unsafe. He filed a whistleblower complaint that prompted the FAA's review of the airline's flight records and maintenance procedures.
The FAA requires pilots to have at least eight continuous hours of rest in a 24-hour period. Other pilots have felt pressured to make similar flights even though the pilots would exceed their hours, he said.
Aviation experts say commuter airlines often hire young, inexperienced pilots who go deeply into debt to become pilots and are willing to work for low hourly wages in hopes of gaining enough experience to be hired by large commercial carriers.
Pilots beginning their careers myrtle beach hotel reviews at some regional airlines make as little as $21 per hour, while their counterparts at major carriers earn more than double that rate, according to airlinepilotcentral.com, which tracks sleep inn phoenix north the industry's pilot pay scales.
Poor pay, coupled with aspirations to work for major carriers, can compel inexperienced pilots to fly as much as they can, said Robert Breiling, a Boca Raton-based airline accident analyst. In many cases, commuter pilots will become flight instructors to get more experience, even though they often have little more flight time than their students, he said.
He offers passengers of commuter lines the same advice myrtle beach hotel reviews he gives his children about flying on them: "If the weather is bad or if it's a little dark out, go get a hotel room, because it's not worth it."
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