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Posted on 07/19/2023 1:41:35 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Starting in 2020, airlines did two insanely stupid things: They forced a generation of their most experienced pilots into early retirement, then committed to new race-based hiring rules.
A wagon train sounds more appealing to me right now than setting foot on a plane with a pilot more trained in detecting microaggressions at work than changes in airspeed and altitude.
I hate flying. My poor husband still has a sore arm from where I grabbed him every time the plane hit turbulence on our last flight. I didn’t always hate it — I used to fly across the country to and from college constantly without thinking about it. I’d fly to Europe without stressing about anything other than how bored I’d be for 12 hours. The Chuck Yeager voice of the calm pilot telling me to put my seatbelt on was reassuring. I was in good hands — the best.
But after one super bumpy flight through a storm cloud during a landing in Paris, I developed a fear of turbulence. This led to me falling into a plane crash rabbit hole. I learned about every gruesome plane crash from the last 50 years. I began to try to find out what caused most crashes, in a vain attempt to prevent having to go out like that.
What brings down an airplane? 9/11: al-Qaida terrorists. The American Airlines crash right after 9/11 out of JFK airport in New York: pilot error. The terrible Air France flight from South America: frozen pitot tubes and pilot error. The Calgon Air crash: ice and pilot error. The miracle on the Hudson: fat geese.
The miracle on the Hudson flight confirmed that in the unlikely event of a flight mishap, having a skilled pilot is literally your only hope.
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My son is a pilot and he says they’re hiring crappy pilots just to “meet quotas”.
However, they’re all the good pilots despise this crap…sooner rather than later this wil come to an end.
If I get on a flight and Quantavious Jenkins and Shaqueefa Johnson are the pilots, I’m getting off.
Turbulence has almost nothing to do with the pilots of airliners. And even less to do with their race.
I think race based hiring is stupid. But her argument is pretty silly.
The pilots are the highly visible right stuff guys, but just important for safety are the mechanics and inspectors.
Huh!!
What have you got against people named Jenkins and Johnson? Both good solid English names. Both probably Anglo-Saxon in origin.
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I don’t even want a ghetto merchant to be driving the local garbage truck
I’m Irish…
I haven’t flown in over 25 years and if I never fly again it will not be any time too soon.
Don’t be transphobic! Good virtue signaling is worth more than an airplane full of random people!
I prefer driving to my vacation destinations.
Dude, my friend, the woke policies are intended to cause air disasters. Then they’ll declare air travel “too dangerous” to keep the pleebs like us from traveling, all the while the rich and their democommie enablers fly private.
Splains that.
I got coxed into flying after five years of no flights. Too many “unusual occurrences” for me but I am off to Albuquerque in two months. I get twitchy when I am not sure the pilot has had military flight experience. I would rather drive because anything goes wrong, I am on the ground.
Lt. Kara Hultgreen died while attempting to land an F-14 on a carrier in 1994.
https://cmrlink.org/data/sites/85/CMRDocuments/CMRRPT09-0695.pdf
"...Lt. Hultgreen's colleagues had great respect for her courage, but as dedicated professionals they could not allow a pervasive climate of political correctness to deter them from initiating a frank discussion of factors which may have contributed to the tragedy..." (too little, too late)
I was a flight attendant starting in the late 80’s. I saw and heard of incompetence in the quota hires. I refused to fly with some - it was bad, very very bad.
realistically all a pilot needs to do is taxi correctly.
Modern commercial airplanes literally can fly themselves.from takeoff to landing. Pilots are just there for random problems that occur like flying through a flock of geese.
I don’t know how to taxi a 777 correctly, but I can fly one.
takeoff to landing.
I've lost the link to the blogger who first posted this, but it needs repeating.
There's a thin veneer of hyper-competent professionals who keep the lights on and the water drinkable. Replace them with the incompetent and the water turns brown and the lights go out.
A pure meritocracy is absolutely essential to a high tech society. Have a look at South Africa to see what happens when this principle is abandoned.
Get all quotas out of the cockpit and med schools. Merit only!
Me, I love flying either in the cockpit or as a passenger.
Airports can be a bit time consuming (and some are pretty dirty), parking can be a pain, but I'm happy in the air and turbulence is an extra bonus.
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