about twenty years ago a friend took off on the wrong parallel runway at san jose. the right one is for small planes and the left for jets. it happened that a united dc-8 was making a practice approach and had to go around. my friend got a suspension and yes, it caused some problems with his career. funny thing is that i had done the same thing at san jose, at night, on my only time in there. the small right runway is really/was really hard to distinguish at night.
whether to fight or to cooperate with the faa is hard to say. a combination seems best to me.
the faa seemed more punitive 15 years ago, although it's hard to say.
i know a boss who told his pilot that if an faa inspector ever thought he saw him (this pilot) flying passengers on the floor of his cargo plane, he should deny it emphatically.
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