MSNBC: For some airline pilots, flying..

[BoDEAN]

....boring. Those French!


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3734082/

 

[Weasil]

Thanks for the Link, I printed out the article and read it to keep me from getting bored while on the job.

Weasil

 

[zonker]

Autopilot systems can follow a set course between continents and land on the center line of a runway thousands of miles away. Some of the best landings — the smooth ones that leave passengers applauding — are executed by "autoland."

So the media found a way to take a way credit for the landings as well? They HAVE been doing their homework, haven't they?

 

[Ailerongirl]

But where will that human be? Some think it might be on the ground, in front of screens controlling aircraft like some video game.

"The fact that pilots are not on planes," said Abbott, "doesn't mean they aren't pilots."

 

[Ailerongirl]

So the media found a way to take a way credit for the landings as well? They HAVE been doing their homework, haven't they?

Obviously, that's why Orville and Wilbur were successful....autoland!

 

[DCitrus9]

During periodic training — usually twice a year for captains, annually for first officers — realistic cockpit simulators subject crews to many hours of the tedium of automated flight, with trainers assessing the psychological stress. It is rare, but to the consternation of the trainers — and even though they know they're under surveillance — pilots occasionally fall asleep in the simulator.

Ahhh, the tedium of engine failures, fires, and fog. What moron considers a PC to be boring? This article is written as if based on fact, but it's a lot of bull----!

 

[JJJ]

Cohen, who also trains other 747 pilots, said he has no trouble staying engaged in the cockpit because he loves to fly. He instructs his co-pilots not to read and tries to keep them engaged in conversation. He scans the instruments frequently.

Talking for 14 hours straight and being instructed not to read is a sure way to get slapped.

I can imagine flying with that guy.

"OK, lets practice our flows, memory items, limitations, and decode metars and tafs. Then after the first meal, I will tell you all about this great opportunity that I have discovered, it's called Amway, and then......"

"Hold that thought, I'm scanning the instruments."

 

[100LL... Again!]

"instructs his copilots not to read..."

This guy is a serious wanker.

I thought by the time you made it this far in aviation the bottle of hand lotion would have run dry.

Apparently not.

This is probably the guy from the other thread that was walking around the mall in his uniform.

I doubt i could tolerate more than ten minutes of flying with this geek.

Any pilot who would allow himself to be quoted saying things like this in a mainstream press article deserves the wanker title.

God's gift to aviation, no doubt.

 

[Catbird]

No reading........Bet he requires a "station passage" call. Wonder if he leaves his crew bag around the crew room when he's not there. Hate to think someone would mistake it for a Port-O-Let. Seen it done to a few tyrannts, some see the light and some don't. The hard heads require advanced treatment. A sprinkling of Bullseye on the suitcase drives the poochies crazy and causes convulsions from the Gestapo at the TSA.

 

[Wiggums]

"Hold that thought, I'm scanning the instruments."

Yeah, make sure to spend ALOT of time checking the overhead panel. It just looks like my eyes are closed...