Posted on 05/13/2023 11:23:37 AM PDT by iontheball
Total bullshiite
See my post:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4152997/posts
The vax injuries amongst airline pilots is real….only a matter of time before the “ holes in the cheese line up”.
An average of 42 pilot incapacitations per year in just the U.S.. U.K., and Australia.
https://www.skybrary.aero/articles/flight-pilot-incapacitation-oghfa-se
https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/2015/ar-2015-096
“No one in their right mind can claim that the number of pilots on the flight deck having a medical emergency is normal ...Where did I read of late that some airlines were considering going with one pilot because of a shortage of pilots?...”
“Normal” is misleading. People vary. In any population, some will be prone to this or that disease, defect, malformation, or mishap. Others will be less vulnerable to the same things.
The crewing of civil aircraft with two pilots is an artifact of training requirements, control system limitaitons and bureaucratic whim.
Before World War Two, many large aircraft had only a single pilot. Boeing’s 299, which was developed into USAAF’s B-17, was just about the earliest warplane to be crewed with both a pilot and a copilot. Many aircraft of the RAF and the Luftwaffe had only a single pilot.
Airlines have fiddled with experience requirements, currency intervals, and proficiency levels since they first took to the air. The risk of having problems because of an inexperienced or unhealthy crewmember has to be weighed against the risk of losing business because there aren’t enough crews to launch an airplane.
My post #23 stats are “pre-COVID”. (ie. 42 incapacitations per year for just 3 countries is the normal average).
Neoplasm of some sort but not malignant?
Otto was joyful. See the smile?
It took a lot of deaths in early aviation, both in aircraft and on the ground, for the aviation industry to implement effective safety procedures. As they taught us in flight school, behind every Federal Aviation Regulation there are a number of tombstones of those who would have lived if the FAR had been place at the time of their death.
Yes there is correct
Neoplasms are tumors. New growth where there shouldn’t be any
Neoplasms are either benign or malignant
Malignant neoplasms are cancers meaning there is metastatic potential.
Benign tumors can be fatal depending on where they are located but have no potential to travel (metastasis)
As we learned in basic logic:
All malignancies are neoplastic. But not all neoplasms are malignant.
Normal PR is .12-.2 and has been for a long time — as cited here, found in a quick search. Well established, common knowledge
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/practice/resources/cardiology/function/normal_duration.php#:~:text=The%20P%2DR%20Interval,5%20small%20squares%20in%20duration.
—- This is straight from the FAA’s web site for aeromedical examiners: Notice it’s an “update from Oct ‘2022, and see the max interval is up to 300 ms, not 200 as it should be. And that’s not the only standard that has been relaxed, there’s a long list.
Normal Variants (Updated 10/26/2022) The following common ECG findings are considered normal variants and are not cause for deferment unless the airman is symptomatic or there are other concerns. Airmen who have these findings may be certified, if otherwise qualified: • Early repolarization • Ectopic atrial rhythm • First-degree AV (atrioventricular) block with PR interval less than 300 ms (0.30 sec). • Incomplete Right Bundle Branch Block (IRBBB) • Indeterminate axis • Intraventricular conduction delay (IVCD) • Left atrial abnormality • Left axis deviation, less than or equal to -30 degrees • Left ventricular hypertrophy by voltage criteria only • Low atrial rhythm • Low voltage in limb leads (May be a sign of obesity or hypothyroidism.) • Premature Atrial Contraction (PAC) – multiple, asymptomatic • Premature Ventricular Contraction (PVC) - single only; 2 or more on ECG require evaluation • Short QT – if no history of arrhythmia • Sinus arrhythmia • Sinus bradycardia. Up to age 49 if heart rate is >44; Age 50 and older if heart rate is >48 • Sinus tachycardia – heart rate < 110 • Wandering atrial pacemaker
All this directly from the FAA - copied and pasted.
https://www.faa.gov/ame_guide/media/Normal_Variants.pdf
“...As they taught us in flight school, behind every Federal Aviation Regulation there are a number of tombstones of those who would have lived if the FAR had been place at the time of their death.” [T.B. Yoits, post 29]
A gambit routinely resorted to in flight training programs.
CAA, and its descendant FAA, were charged with the dual mission of regulating civil aviation and promoting it. Can’t do both effectively at the same time.
The conceit that a centrally controlled agency staffed by bureaucrats can make risky activities like air travel completely safe and worry-free is a holdover from Progressivism. The combination of regulation and legal action has brought general aviation almost to a standstill; if not for homebuilts and kitplanes, progress would be nil.
Get stuffed Troll.
No one is saying that a "centrally controlled agency staffed by bureaucrats can make risky activities like air travel safe and worry-free". They're saying that someone has to make it safe, that a two-person crew was put in place for a reason, and going to one pilot is an unacceptable risk.
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