The Safety Warning AEI published after our congress in London September 2007 and sent to all the european aviation authorities, has received little response, let alone support or acknowledgement from these authorities.
Although the safety warning was clear and precise and specifically informed the authorities where this evidence could easily be found, AEI is of the opinion that no authority is willing to investigate and / or report any findings to AEI. The authorities that answered, more or less stated that their system of inspection was excellent and that they followed their own procedures which did not reveal major malfunctions. It would appear the authorities do not want to open a 'Pandora's box' to discover unwanted truths.The apparent ignorance of the European National Aviation Authorities regarding their own systems concerns AEI. They claim that they have never observed pilots not writing down defects when they occur; why would they? Nobody would speed with a police officer sitting next to them. As authorities, they want to play safe by looking at procedures rather than find errors. Before sending out the safety warning and receiving little positive response, AEI had the feeling that the authorities could be trusted to do their job, but as AEI has received little responses, AEI believes this was a wrong assumption and a too positive attitude. AEI will continue to confront the public, the European Transport Committee, as well as European Aviation Safety Authorities (EASA) with these results, and will demand an investigation of the failure to carry out this safety inspection. In addition, AEI have again raised the issue of aircraft engineers licenses illegally being issued by a number of european national authorities and the unwillingness of these authorities, as well as EASA to withdraw these licenses. AEI is against any form of general pardon with regards to illegally acquired licenses, as it now appears to be the standard behaviour. AEI therefore demands EASA take the necessary steps to pressure the european NAA's to take their responsibility seriously and have these licenses withdrawn. From other sources we have received information that the present neglect of EASA Part 66 conversion rule continues, even though officially this has been completed. If AEI does not bring these issues forward nobody else will.
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