Transport committee  Yes. Look at it as being proactive. Why wait until an accident happens to correct an action? Let's be proactive so we prevent that accident.

Transport committee  Absolutely.

Transport committee  Again, for the terminology, I'm probably not the person to ask. That's not something we normally discuss with our company. We know that inspections are going on. That said, for example, I'm doing recurrent training in a simulator next week, and there could be a Transport Canada i

Transport committee  I'm certainly not an expert in those areas but we always refer to the traditional audit as “kicking the tires”. I've been in this business for over 30 years and in the early days you would see inspectors walking around the aircraft taking a look at it.

Transport committee  We knew at the time it was a traditional inspection.

Transport committee  Thank you. We represent pilots from nine airlines in Canada, and there have been a number of instances where pilots have been disciplined after they've self-reported. To us, it's a cultural issue within the particular airline. We work with these airlines, and for the most part,

Transport committee  Good morning, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. My name is Dan Adamus. I'm the president of the Canada board of the Air Line Pilots Association, International, and I'm a pilot with Jazz Aviation. With me this morning is First Officer Mark Rogers. He is the director of

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Laframboise. Absolutely, we need to maintain oversight of the company's safety management system, as well as regular inspections. As to your comment about new inspectors coming in and not being qualified, that's something to be directed at Transport Canada. We ha

Transport committee  Yes, absolutely. When we talk about security in the aviation industry, I guess I could refer to it as different layers of security. SMS is just another layer of safety. It's an add-on; it's a bonus. It's going to identify problems that wouldn't normally be identified under the ol

Transport committee  I mentioned earlier that it's all positive so far. We have not heard of any negative feedback. You brought up a good point, and I actually wrote down in my notes, when Mr. Jeanes was speaking, about getting data from accidents. That's exactly what SMS does. It gets data, but lu

Transport committee  We do not represent pilots on the corporate side of the industry. However, we do represent pilots at Bearskin Airlines, a small carrier that has 60 pilots; Calm Air, with maybe 85 pilots, northern operations; pilots in the cargo industry at Kelowna Flightcraft; pilots at Air Cana

Transport committee  That is correct. It is in place at a number of airlines right now. I believe Air Transat was one of the first airlines to implement SMS. From talking with their pilot representatives, I know that they're very happy with the way it works. They've noticed significant improvements i

Transport committee  No. With all due respect, that's not the intention. There's still a regulatory framework in place. There's still oversight by Transport Canada. All SMS does is go above and beyond what's currently in place. There has been a fair amount of talk about Transport Canada losing insp

Transport committee  I think as a witness here on the stand, it could be a verbal record, or it's in the purview of the committee what they would request from the Transport Canada official.

Transport committee  We would have to look at it seriously again. Again, before you got into third-party regulation, it would have to go through the CARAC process, so there would be an opportunity at that point, and we would certainly bring up the point that it is on the record that it was not the in