Pilot furious at U.S. for silence on bomb

[densoo]

I only learned about the incident after landing when I looked at the CNN Web site on my iPhone.

Isn't there an iPhone app that allows reception via satellite for checking "weather" over the Atlantic, Pacific, or poles.

 

[Whine Lover]

I make statements to the media all the time but my press conferences are not well attended. ( I suspect a vast left wing conspiracy ) - I have the same problem.(!)

Seriously though I do write the occasional letter to Aviation Week under my own name. (So far they have published all of them) - Me too. Only one letter though.



My crew meal was excellent today, thank you very much. - So, you have that going for you, and that's not too shabby.




Good luck with that one. I am not excited to be in close proximity to your Barney Battalion but maybe it's just me.

- You are correct Sir. I must reconsider this one. We can't have a pile of fools running around with one bullet each. We need trained Israeli Commandos with automatic weapons and at least a thousand rounds each.

 

[igneousy2]

Let me guess steve is one of those FFDO guys that accomplished FFDO school because of a certain small appendage he has.

The morale to this story: we are and always will be vulnerable. From the date of your birth until your 80 birthday, you have a 1 in 800,000 chance of dying in a terrorist attack....a 1 in 80 chance of dying in a car accident.....a 1 in 100 chance of dying from the discharge of a hand gun. It always numbs my brain to watch the like of Fox news and your typical red neck uneducated pilot constantly obsess about issues that in the whole scheme of things, matters little compared to other issues.

and the morale of THIS story is that there are lies, damn lies, and statistics.

first...I would say that if it is true that the average person has a 1 in 800,000 chance of dying in a terrorist attack, the people reading this form are in all likelihood substantially above average in this regard just because our exposure is substantially higher than the average person. Who else is included in this "average"...I would bet that a Montana farmer that never gets on an airplane in his life and the only "big city" he ever goes to is Cut Bank is greatly skewing the risk from those of us on airplanes and in major city centers everyday. Statistics also look backwards. If there was a rash of terrorist attacks next week, I would bet the odds would change. Besides haven't you ever read about Black Swans.

second...I'm surprised at the reaction on this board. It is clear that the ball was dropped as many airplanes were not notified properly. I'm not a gun nut FFDO type but I must say that everything I have read about the TSA response (or lack of one) angers me.

Keeping our head down and going through our union has gotten us here...and I don't like where we are. The APA has come out guns blazing against the TSA, where is ALPA? They are keeping their mouth shut because they are affraid they won't be able to get the age 65 rule changed to an age 70 rule if they anger too many people in Washington.

Steve - Bravo for having the balls for saying what you feel and for actually having the ability to get yourself heard.