Posted on 05/17/2010 10:58:56 AM PDT by mgstarr
That’s ok we have a guy flying a country without id....
Maybe Northwest should hire him. Wasn’t Northwest the airline with the drunken pilots?
Did he also stay at a Holiday Inn?
“Catch Me If You Can”
"PAPERS PLEASE!" < /nazi accent > < /sarc >
I would say his flight record speaks for itself.
He effectively proves it is not as difficult as some would have you believe. I think the hard part is getting through the checklist, flight after flight, day after day, year after year.
There’s no such thing as an illegal pilot, he was just flying the planes that...
No big deal...we’ve people Presidentin’ right here in the USA...without any ID at all!!
If only fake pilots were allowed to marry, this never would have happened.
Did that guy ever actually fly the plane, or did he just pretend to be a dead-header everywhere he went? I don't know.
LOL.
He did it, for the children.
To his credit, he seems to have done a decent job of it, and was sincere in his efforts (i.e. he genuinely wanted to be a successful airline pilot). He’s probably a halfway decent pilot by now, which is more than I can say for some licensed commercial pilots I’ve had. It doesn’t excuse what he did, since the real training pilots get is more about what to do when things go wrong, than what to do when things go right. I’ve heard more than one pilot tell me that anyone can fly an airplane in level flight and clear conditions; the problem comes when trying to take off or land and/or fly in adverse weather.
The prosecutors need to wrap up this case and let him get back to doing his job of flying the planes for the people...
Line O the year!
According to Wikipedia (for what that’s worth), he never actually flew; even though other pilots asked him to take the controls, he always begged off, using the “eight hours between bottle and throttle” excuse.
How many Islamists are working on the same thing?
How does he pass the recurrent training? He is either very bright and a very quick study, or the training is garbage.
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