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Transport committee I don't know if that's true or not, sir. I'm not aware if it's true. I have read it, but I don't know if it's true or not.
June 10th, 2014Committee meeting
Capt Craig Blandford
Transport committee I would argue that you're right, sir. We're using the tools. We're way more sophisticated in identifying issues and fixing them today. The flight data management system for us is incredible. We can identify things that are going to happen if we don't fix it. Without even report
June 10th, 2014Committee meeting
Capt Craig Blandford
Transport committee Yes, we have gone through the Transport Canada process of taking all the stakeholders, putting them into a room for several years, talking about what needs to be done, looking at the science of fatigue. That's very important, the science of fatigue. All the stakeholders got toget
June 10th, 2014Committee meeting
Capt Craig Blandford
Transport committee I'm not aware of those.
June 10th, 2014Committee meeting
Capt Craig Blandford
Transport committee I'd respond that safety has improved since we've implemented SMS and that we've gone away from the traditional cultural model we used to have of inspections, enforcement, and punishment. We have improved greatly in our safety since we've gone away from the model. And so I don't t
June 10th, 2014Committee meeting
Capt Craig Blandford
Transport committee —inspections alone are going to improve safety. I've said to you, sir, that we have as much experience as and do way more inspections of our own carrier than Transport Canada ever will. We do them on a daily basis.
June 10th, 2014Committee meeting
Capt Craig Blandford
Transport committee Yes.
June 10th, 2014Committee meeting
Capt Craig Blandford
Transport committee I don't know anything about their structure or their governance. I don't know what their mandates are. I know they're the union that represents the pilots.
June 10th, 2014Committee meeting
Capt Craig Blandford
Transport committee Absolutely. Some of those are peers, people I went to school with, people I flew with in the air force. Absolutely.
June 10th, 2014Committee meeting
Capt Craig Blandford
Transport committee Yes.
June 10th, 2014Committee meeting
Capt Craig Blandford
Transport committee That's a fact that he keeps track of, I—
June 10th, 2014Committee meeting
Capt Craig Blandford
Transport committee No, I'm not. Is that all you want me to say, sir?
June 10th, 2014Committee meeting
Capt Craig Blandford
Transport committee Yes.
June 10th, 2014Committee meeting
Capt Craig Blandford
Transport committee I do not want to imply in any way, shape, or form that we don't have a good relationship with Transport Canada or that they're not doing what I think is their job on a day-to-day basis. I'm trying to point out, however, that there are some improvements we can make to the SMS sy
June 10th, 2014Committee meeting
Capt Craig Blandford
Transport committee There are always two pilots. They're in the simulator every eight months. There are all kinds of monitoring and feedback systems other than the safety system when it comes to an individual pilot. What we're most concerned about are trends among all of the pilots.
June 10th, 2014Committee meeting
Capt Craig Blandford