In Flight...
In Flight...
Standard suspicions regarding certain unnamed vaccines.....
What if the pilot and co-pilot both become incapacitated on the same flight?
After reading the news this week, I’m staying home and avoiding trips, Walmart, nightclubs, and college towns.
Safe and effective.
Aviation regulators push for more automation so flights can be run by a single pilot
Regulators are pushing the UN’s International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to examine ways of making single pilot operations the eventual norm in commercial flights.
In a working paper [PDF] filed with the aviation standards body, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) requested on behalf of member states that the “necessary enablers” be created “for a safe and globally harmonized introduction of commercial air transport (CAT) operations of large aeroplanes with optimised crew/single-pilot operations while ensuring an equivalent or higher level of safety compared to that achieved in current operations.”
There are two obvious drivers for the proposal – cost cutting and crew shortages. Technology has over decades reduced the need for more people in the cockpit and the hope seems to be that further improvements can pare the current two down to one.
“One of the driving factors for the industry to propose taking advantage of the introduction of these new concepts of operations is a foreseen reduction in operating costs,” the paper says, though it does note: “Potential additional costs related to higher-level ground support and two-way communications should also be considered. On the aircraft manufacturer side, the development and certification of new cockpit designs and associated systems may require significant investment, although these will likely produce safety benefits and savings in the medium/long term.”
https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/21/pilot_single/
“Safe and effective”
I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather; not screaming in terror like his passengers — an old joke.
Although the list has become long since 9/11, the biggest thing I don’t like about flying commercial is I’m not driving.
What is not being discussed is all commercial pilots have a medical exam every 6 months (and it includes a EKG among other tests), and those with heart abnormalities fail.
The most tested profession you are likely to encounter.
anybody who got the clot shot, and who experiences a rapid heartbeat (excitement, exertion, whatever) seems to drop dead.
He deserves mega credits for getting the plane back safely. Also the air traffic controllers deserve a huge amount of credit. This recognition is missing in most, if not all, of the comments on this thread
Here is the link to the ATC audio of the event:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-hJtF9qPyY
I don't know about you, but I prefer that the pilots of the planes I fly in be already fully qualified as Captains.
Death by Fauci - shame on those who continue to push experimental injections - whatever happened to medical ethics?
Heart attack?
The JAB strikes again.
Recently boosted?