Ethics in Aviation
August 10th 2022
Ethics in Aviation
The aviation community is built on its ethics. The definition of ethics is to have a set of moral principles or in my words to have a strong moral compass. My day job has me building and maintaining the jet engines that power F15's. They are large and very intricate machines the require an acute eye for detail and a strong moral compass. When building up these engines, we have inspection points that we have to adhere to before we move on and install the next component, these steps are called in-processes inspection or an IPI. I have worked with a lot of people over the years, mostly good and some bad, unfortunately we really only remember the bad. There was one such occasion when an IPI was simply pencil whipped and no one knew about the it until the engine went for testing. During the engine run test, it was found to be consuming a vast quantity of oil causing the test to be rejected. Upon further investigation, it was discovered that multiple rubber o-rings where missing from the oil system and that the IPI for the installation was simply signed off good.
Pilots, crew members, passengers and many more depend on the people who put that airplane and engine together to have a strong set of morals. These machines can't fly when people pencil whip maintenance and tell themselves it's the nexts guys problem and that they will take care of it. The men and woman in any aviation maintenance need to have strong ethics because not only are planes expensive, peoples lives are on the line.
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