CatYaaak
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acaTerry said:?????
acaTerry...
.....the businessman pilot who buys too much airplane to handle does it so he can get there wherever he's going faster. They push into conditions they shouldn't because they are more concerned with what's happening/missing at point B and a schedule than with using good judgement for the task at hand. Worldy concerns are driving them past their limitations. Safety of flight should be driving you..the pro pilot.. despite your wordly concerns.
.....All the accidents attributed to pilot error despite having great salaries are the ones I mean. Or perhaps it's just that you don't believe "pilot error" exists?
...You avoid the point about pax having a moral obligation to grasp your "issues", and deflect it in a response about seatbelts instead. Given your original distainful comments, I guess you truly believe that they DO have the obligation to make your profession their life's study. That sounds pretty egomaniacal to me.
...well I don't know about your fractional gig, but those "tightwad pax" at the regionals writing letters about pilot salaries because they are held in rapt attention during your negotiations? Please. Are saying they take valuable time off from watching Springer reruns to sit down and write "don't pay the pilots because I'm going to disneyland next year!". Sorry, I'm more inclined to believe they write letters regarding either crappy or sometimes good service.
... I don't know about the fracs but in my experience flying charter, private VIP owners, corporate, airlines, VIP, and corporate again, I figured passengers were passengers cuz I was a pilot. It sounds like you're still at the "impressed" stage of flying people with a fair amount of disposable income. Well, respecting anyone doesn't automatically mean you disrespect the rest. Hey, I just remembered I ride in the back of airliners..does that make me s$$tscum in your book too?
...My hearing's fine, so perhaps the many passenger conversations you supposedly overhear that feature you and pilots as the stars are really just the voices in your head switched to "Wishful Thinking" mode.
..I'm sorry you didn't get the connection and similarities between your rant about pilot salaries equating to stress and reduced safety with another profession where likewise lives are at stake yet stressful "issues" present for the professional, and the expectation you'd have for them to do their job and not kill you or your loved one. But if he did in some really flagrant way, how you'd not want to hear about their personal "issues" regarding blanket-stress issues like salary. You'd figure if he DID have them, knew about them, and couldnt function to a degree he mistook a liver for a spleen, he should've taken the day off.
...I said if you can't block it out while you're flying, quit. Especially if you're so emotional and can't block out something as general as an entire industry. As if this industry's changed so much...a big suprise. Like guys flying for regionals 15 years ago weren't grossing $900/month flying 19 seat crap and paying for training.
What if your fellow crewmember was also so stressed out about some pet peeve...say....CO2 emissions and the ice caps melting...that he couldn't put aside his personal worries until at least the time you shut down at the gate? We end up with a planeload of unwitting passengers flying along while one pilot is thinking about the indignity and unfairness he suffers because airlines are businesses instead of a Jobs Program for pilots like he believes they should be, while the other one who's helping to burn and blow all that jet fuel into the atmosphere can't even get concerned about his captain's money-rant because he's too busy thinking of how the world is doomed anyway. Yeah, that's pretty safe.
You may be right...if the passengers knew the state of those pilots' heads, they WOULD have to be morons to get onboard.
It doesnt matter what your stress-producer is. Just because it's stress produced by one's own industry doesn't make it "righteous" enough to carry with you on a flight. Like any other, if you can't find a way to block it for at least as long as a flight lasts, hang it up.
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