livin'thesim
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Sounds like a retarded, backward, foolish culture.
Yep, Westerners are quite superior to that culture. Punitive FOQA? What a bunch of f-wads.
Sounds like a retarded, backward, foolish culture.
Yep, Westerners are quite superior to that culture. Punitive FOQA? What a bunch of f-wads.
I think that their harda## hero-pilot culture is indicative of a deep sense of inferiority they feel toward Westerners. Insecurity usually leads to this kind of we-don't-make-mistakes attitude.
Acknowledging the fallibility of human beings and the fact that we all make mistakes is the first step toward curing those mistakes.
Idiots.
I was always second on the crew bus or crew limo, after the CA, before the FAs. I always had good crew meals. I had 4 MELs in 2 years. 4. 4! I never ever waited for a gate or a push crew or a jetway operator.
Their culture isn't foolish. It's different, and they wouldn't make the same mistakes you and I would make.
We need checklists because we're weak at routines. They aren't. They're robots. We're cowboys. We grew up thinking the cowboys should win that movie, but it ain't necessarily so.
The airline should just buy some Cessnas and make them go fly touch and goes a few times a year. For stick and rudder. For fun.
Actually, grown ups who consistently use the word "retard" are generally perceived as the idiots of our society. It too is an indication of some deep rooted insecurities about oneself.
Thinking one society is a bunch of F wads and another is superior is kind of the same thing as not being able to "acknowledge the fallibility of human beings and the fact that we all make mistakes" to use you words.
Now for the lighter side
FWO = FLYING WHILE ORIENTAL = NO PHERIPHAL VISION = NO HAND EYE COORDINATION
DWO = DRIVING WHILE ORIENTAL = THE ABOVE ALSO
Actually, grown ups who consistently use the word "retard" are generally perceived as the idiots of our society. It too is an indication of some deep rooted insecurities about oneself.
Thinking one society is a bunch of F wads and another is superior is kind of the same thing as not being able to "acknowledge the fallibility of human beings and the fact that we all make mistakes" to use you words.
Tell that to the guy who designed our VNAV programming. He has the plane using that very word all the damn time! On the other hand, considering some of the stuff that the VNAV programming does (or at least the version that SWA bought), no to mention the abysmally pathetic lack of effort it puts up before reverting from VNAV Path to VNAV Speed, perhaps that particular programmer does fit into your category defined above as "idiots of our society."
Jes' sayin'...
Bubba
I was always second on the crew bus or crew limo, after the CA, before the FAs. I always had good crew meals. I had 4 MELs in 2 years. 4. 4! I never ever waited for a gate or a push crew or a jetway operator.
Their culture isn't foolish. It's different, and they wouldn't make the same mistakes you and I would make.
We need checklists because we're weak at routines. They aren't. They're robots. We're cowboys. We grew up thinking the cowboys should win that movie, but it ain't necessarily so.
The airline should just buy some Cessnas and make them go fly touch and goes a few times a year. For stick and rudder. For fun.
We have more than a few "Oriental" pilots at Hawaiian that hand fly the crap out the airplanes day in and day out, in the case of inter-island they're doing 8-10 visual approaches a day in 35Kts+ Gusts.... not to mention the 767 ops in and out of Maui... as hard as it gets for visual approaches, short runway, gusts, etc..
it's not about the genetic make up of Asians, it's the culture of those carriers and those countries... Some of the best pilots and (honestly) best CRM at HAL is the guys from Asian backgrounds..
If I were still a moderator here, that post would have been deleted..
or about flight attendants being whiny or horny.
Bubba
Whoa there Hoss....Flight Attendants are horny????![]()
Now for the lighter side
FWO = FLYING WHILE ORIENTAL = NO PHERIPHAL VISION = NO HAND EYE COORDINATION
DWO = DRIVING WHILE ORIENTAL = THE ABOVE ALSO
It's a wide-ranging insult, but not really different than Dan Roman calling me a numbnuts, or me calling him a jackhole (not that either of us in particular would do such a thing, but I understand that other people do).
Bubba
So you equate an idiot insulting multiple races to you and your boyfriend having a jackhole spat. HHMM
When's the last time someone told you to pull your head out of your ass?
If I'm cheating on a written test, I'm looking at the Asian guys paper. If I want to survive an actual emergency, I want a gringo flying that plane. It's not racist to acknowledge that very real cultural differences exist and for whatever reason, many Asian cultures don't mix ideally with Aviation.
I think on some level, we all know this is true.