Hey, FN, not to pick nits here or anything, but there are also such things as "follow-up questions". The guy may be stupid about his flows, but you really jumped his $hit pretty hard there.
I'm not privy to his problems with flows...I use them extensively during my 135 Sim rides, check rides, and day to day flying. Moreover, I still manage to get the required checklists done. We are a single pilot operation, so we cannot delegate anything to a co-pilot. Get behind while flying single pilot IFR and you could become designated PNF very quickly.
Without flows, you would be buried easily. During my last Level D sim training and sim check-ride, I would be hit with an emergency or have to perform a go around, hit the flow, get the plane doing what I wanted it to do and then reach over and grab that checklist and read the required items.
Whether It was a generator failure or something simple like an after takeoff check. As I read the items, I checked to make sure they were done, then I would state loudly enough for the instructor or check airman to hear..."after takeoff checklist complete"...then I would slap that checklist down and move on to the flying. Level off, complete the flow, pick up the checklist and check, then I would state... "Level off checklist complete!” And so on.
Flows mean that you "UNDERSTAND" what you are doing and know your airplane in and out, and that you have built in good habits of merging the checklists and PIM into your flying. Your flows will be perfect and your reading of the checklists will reflect that.
As a single pilot 135 flyer I know that I can rely on flows to help me get organized FAST when it's dark out, lightning is flashing nearby, the digital OAT is jumping from +1 to -1 at every turn, I'm tired, I got an oxygen mask strapped onto my face, I'm trying to get caught up on paperwork and then the generator suddenly drops off line, leaving me on battery power because the load was to high for the standby alternator to continue to help out.
Here, is where flows will get you back up and running quickly. Here, is where you do not want to be reading a book on how to fly an airplane.
Here, is where you do not want to get overloaded.
Add in a flameout from turbulence, or a mechanical failure to the fuel control unit, and your "reading" could get very interesting to say the least.
So anyway, what were we gabbing about anyway? Riding the kid...O.K. inside of every “over the hill”, ex-military, ex-cop, single pilot 135 turbine freight dawg aircraft master and commander, is a teen-age drama queen screaming to get out! Sorry...he could have chose not to indicate laziness, by locating and placing his post "in-line" on the original thread, thus maintaining thread continuity.
In addition, if he felt the need to start a new thread, he could have easily indicated the interrogative nature of his post by placing the suggested symbol (?) at the end of his statement...ooops...I mean question, Thereby avoiding the wrath of the grape.
I guess in this era of people not using turn signals, driving in the left lane while not passing as they chat on cell phones, and people frantically trying to run you down with overflowing grocery carts so they can beat you to the "10 item or less/cash only" checkout while whipping out their check books...why should I hold a commercial pilot to a higher standard of EFFECTIVE communication?
I mean...it is not as if I could have prevented a "BEDFORD INCIDENT" or anything like that.
P.S. Was not was a stupid question? Let us see...Does not the ATP certificate have a requirement about high moral standards or something in them?
Let us not debate how stupid a question is, or whether or not a (?) symbol should be placed at the end of an interrogative statement...let's debate whether or not the pilot should or could be fired and cite case law to prove our points!
Let's also look a the responsibility of the employer who may have a pilot flying hundreds of passengers daily, while having the incident, the $50,000 bail, and a possible conviction and prison time hanging over his head...what is their recourse?...What should the airline do with this pilot?
I am all for "not guilty till convicted in a court of law", but what is the balance of "individual rights" vs. "public order" here?
"classic"
TC
