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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.
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!
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)
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.
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.
It’s not just airlines. Look at the Supreme Court. The latest AA hire just wrote a dissent that read like an op ed piece. in the dissent she claimed, erroneously, that black babies of black physicians had twice the survival rate of those with white physicians. Not only is that incorrect it demonstrates a lack of knowledge of arithmetic and common sense - not to mention the ability of her clerks to check citations.
I quit flying when they started fondling you a 1/4 of the way before you even got to your gate.
Because there were no deaths and few injuries, none of the passengers sued anyone. I remember seeing a documentary of many of the passengers and Capt. Sullenberger having a reunion. When Sully showed up, many of the passengers started crying in honor of Sully.
Side note. Capt. Sullenberger was a 57 year old white male.
I’m glad I’ve permanently given up flying. I won’t ever get in an aircraft again unless I’m in the pilot seat. I will not allow myself to become a victim of affirmative action and tokenism.
Before the US Airline industry goes back to hiring pilots based on their actual skills and education there will need to be an airliner crash or three caused by the incompetence of the pilots that were hired because of their race.
Too late. Far too many underqualified in the cockpits.