Posted on 07/12/2021 1:16:52 PM PDT by rktman
American Airlines passengers were filmed with their hands on their heads on a flight from Los Angeles to Miami on Wednesday. All passengers aboard the flight 2289 “were ordered to put their hands on their heads for 45-60 minutes before landing,” according to passenger Chris Nguyen, who filmed part of the bizarre incident:
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Fixed gear, 300HP, and smells like avgas. My definition of heaven thru the air. The best experience in aviation however was getting my seaplane rating. All VFR seat of the pants fun! Nothing procedural about it. PA-18 super-Cub. Break the glassy water, climb to 2000’ AGL, and fly the rivers to wherever you’re going! If and when I retire.......
On three, everyone shift to the left side of the plane....
I don’t have a realid to fly and this why I don’t care.
You must be working for a competing airline.
I flew a seaplane in Mt. Dora, FLA. Loved it!
Anyone else getting extremely tired of industries under heavily federal government control treating us like cattle?
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Fascism. It sucks.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's not true.
And the witches on South West know it. I will probably be banned for my repeated calls to SWA Customer Service complaining about the Gestapo Flight Attendants. I always have a first name, flight number and some description of the evil attendant.
They listen and always tell me it is for the passenger “safety”
Wife and I have flown SWA dozens of times over last 10 or so years. It’s always been great! Never a problem with business or flight staff.
In the ole days, the media would be all over this until they could report 100%
Not today. Nothing to see here, move on.
A list preferred for the past 8 years - averaged 60 flights a year pre - Covid -
The SWA attendants have lost it since Covid - mean, rude and many just don’t care. Way different since Covid.
Got my add-on rating in 1996 for $600. Cheapest mid-life crisis cure ever! That even included the examiner check ride and stamp.
*** That silly ass comment about the public’s “right to know” at the end to the story only presumes that the public would act responsibly if they were told what was actually happening. ***
I took that to mean after the passenger was arrested and they were all herded without their personal belongings with them. Wouldn’t you want an explanation?
I think they deserved one then.
My add-on was commercial. I’m really not so sure how one flies instruments in a sea plane except for enroute maybe? Commercial pilot SEL AND SEA. Not sure how the instrument rating goes? They never asked on biannuals?
MFing snakes
The instructor said today it’s about 4 hours flying (a 206 in this case) then the checkride, so about $1,500 with DPE fee.
For a sea plane IFR over water you can still use HA VORs. They can reach out to about 60 nm. NDB, which are being turned off as fast as they can, can reach about that. GPS is always there, of course.
But I read the comment to mean the passengers deserved a full explanation while the event was transpiring in the air.
That was a fun movie.
I think I had best not comment on this thread other than to mention this is reason 77,876 I’ve not flown on a plane since 9/11
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