Can't you just hear the Politicians knees jerking ?

[Whine Lover]

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/pilot-steals-plane-utah-airport-16798661


Good thing he shot himself..... Thereby avoiding hours of retraining on Taxi procedures.

DOH.


I wonder what effed' up knee jerk reactions this will bring us in our next set of non-sequitous Laws/Regulations in this Industry?



YKW

 

[Bringupthebird]

Yes, but if he had only wounded himself, he would have been charged with interfering with a flight crew member.

Do flight instructors ever sit primary students down and say, "Maybe this ain't the gig for you cowboy"?

 

[awacs]

Lets talk....

Circa 1992, and a guy come into the flight school. He wants to put down a full $5,000 to fly and get as many ratings as possible to become a pilot, and to do it professionally.

I look at him: 45, wife two kids, and the wife is behind him because she works. He is a construction worker (equipment operator) and makes $45,000 he says but unhappy. I he wanted to fly all of his life but his dad stopped him, and now he has his only chance.

I had just read an article in AIN where this pilot was out of work with 9,000 hrs PIC on the B-1900 and was pulling his hair out. He had just sent in a resume with "9,000 hrs PIC" in some horrid colour written in big letters down the middle of his resume and did not get hired again.

I give this article to the guy and ask : "read it, and if you want I will stick to you until the end, but you have to ask yourself something. Is the lost of $45,000 of your income, plus the low starting wage, and the fact you have to PAY something like $30,000 for ratings and some sort of pay-for-training at a commuter going to make this worth it to you?"

He stayed for almost an hour. In the end left and I never saw him again.


AWACS