Posted on 04/08/2021 5:04:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber
I expect many co pilots will soon retire.
The FAA is not too far from the FBI in the ingrown gubmint bureaucracy. The FBI is one of the most corrupt, cynical, unethical outfits in the Country. I can’t believe the FAA is far behind. They are all part of the DS. The only part I can’t reconcile is that the clumsy, misfit, incompetent aspiring “pilots” don’t seem to realize that when the plane crashes and burns, THEY crash and burn with it. Or don’t they even give a bleep about THAT?
Safety should come first, not politics.
My neighbor went through a school to get his Class A license to drive big rigs. Got a job and they eventually put him in a self driving rig. He complained about all the training he did going to waste. Then he got in a wreck. Hit another 18 wheeler in the rear and there were no skid marks. He was doing 70 mph and the traffic ahead was at a stand still. Pushed the 18 wheeler in front of him into another 18 wheeler. I got to looking at the accident scene pics and noticed his rig had red rims but the self driving rig he had been driving for months had nice new Alcoa aluminum rims. Guess they swapped trucks on him and he was so used to the truck driving itself, he fell asleep in the non self driving rig. Killed him and severely injured the driver in front of him and the one in front of that.
That’s a sad story, but does not surprise me. You get spoiled by the Tech. Hard to believe thought that he could fall asleep on a non-self driving rig.
I have read that the operators they have in self-driving test cars get so bored that they often fall asleep or get really complacent.
we are about to be flooded with fake pilots from india
Step Two: Lower standards for minorities.
Step Three: Lower standards for everyone.
Step Four: Call people racists if they notice more planes are crashing...
To make sure everyone has a job won’t they need to have affirmative action for men as elementary teachers and nurses?
The instructor pilot was a XX chromosome
Right - put low time pilots on the flight deck for increased diversity; low saftey.
Or, unqualified pilots being put in charge of planes and people’s lives.
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Not my life. I’ll never fly United or Delta again under any circumstances.
when democrats go to the hospital, they should only receive care from those advanced thru affirmative action
The trend is that it will only get more sophisticated and reliale.
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You mean sophisticated like the spell checker software on FR?
These CEOs making these decisions fly on the company jet that won’t have a diversity pilot.
Definition of a company jet: A corporate mailing tube.
You mean sophisticated like the spell checker software on FR?
Don’t forget that the airline industry is at the mercy of the politicians.
The FAA is about as bad as the FBI.
You can bet that the government is pushing the airlines to get “woke”.
Yes. I am well acquainted with that mishap. Unfortunate.
Granted, it was a known flaw in the plane that had to be trained around, but...there are a lot of things that have to be trained around, and we expect people to get those things right.
Especially fighter pilots.
In my other post, I was talking about the book “Bogeys and Bandits” and a despicable woman who tried to paint her instructors for mistakes that were all hers using the “Sex Card” to defame them and hurt their careers.
It has been a long time, but I recall one of the things that could get you washed out of the fighter program was what are called “Blue on Blue” incidents, where in practicing aerial warfare, you shoot down one of your own planes. I believe it is a black mark, and (depending on the circumstances) doing it more than once was enough to get you washed out. I think she had three of them, and after the third one, she was blaming it her male instructor’s treatment of her.
They said her instructor, some Lieutenant Commander, was known for his patience and excellent instruction, and after one of the incidents, he was trying to explain what she did wrong, and she blew him off with an airy response. He persisted in trying to impress on her what she did wrong, to the point this excellent and most reasonable and patient instructors was nearly red with rage because she wasn’t listening.
And I don’t believe she even got washed out for that. It was something even more egregious, IIRC.
Gah!
Screw flying AA! “Sorry Frank! I know you have 30 years flying with no incidents, but this black 19 year old transexual just kinda graduated from onlne ‘U Can Fly 2’ school, and passed his landing with a D+. So we are making him Captain!”
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