Posted on 03/27/2015 4:34:00 AM PDT by Leaning Right
They go through an abbreviated screening, much like the TSAPrecheck that favored frequent fliers get to use. They, and the TSAPre people, do not need to remove their shoes, belts, and coats and do not need to show computers they are carrying on. I know, I’ve been through such lines.
Latest flight I was on the Captain announced is wife was aboard.
We made it anyway.
Screening? they will just conceal their motives.
Possible triggers that should alert management: impending firing, being dumped romantically, conversion to ROP, sex change operation.
Pilots have to get physicals every 6 months, the AME (aviation medical examiner) is suppose to include mental states of pilots. HR departments and chief pilots need to monitor as well. But at the end of the day, you have to close the cockpit door and have faith the crew will so there job.
Returning home from a visit with my sister in the Cleveland area, we took a break from the turnpike & I took the family on a Lake Eire Airlines to an Ohio island on a Ford Trimotor. Might have been your flight. On the return, the flight crew (pilot) invited me to sit in the co-pilot’s seat. One of the things I noticed was that the instrument panel was the same as the instrument panel in the Model A which I had driven to high school. A gas gauge and an ammeter.
I used to work for the agency in this article. While we searched luggage the baggage handlers were waiting to clear the luggage and haul it off. The smell of MJ from them was overpowering. Glassy bloodshot eyes,munchies, the works
In another case one of our employees was fired for being drunk at work. I was told he blew a 0.19. A few weeks later he went to work for a major carrier driving the luggage carriers that take your suitcases to be loaded on the aircraft. That went on for a few months then he disappeared. I figured that he had his same problems ie: being drunk on the job.
Sometime later I had to get my Driving record pulled for a job I was applying for. I went to the DMV in Marin county and who was behind a desk handing out forms, the drunk from the airport.
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