Reba McEntire's Jet Charter Company

[100LL... Again!]

It is very politically incorrect to say something that seems to criticize a dead pilot, but CFIT is an inexcusable error, in my opinion.

We are either the independent, intelligent, self-reliant professionals that we claim to be, or we are a bunch of trained apes flipping switches and reading out of manuals and checklists.

The I-didn't-know response about DPs is not acceptable. Fine, you're fired, we'll hire someone who has heard of them.

Pilots want to be thought of as the solid professional when it comes to demanding pay. Buuut, when they Frok it up, they want to shift the blame to those who trained them or the operation they fly under, or "the FAA should have published a warning", or some BS.

How many pilots have done an exhaustive read of all those dry advisory circulars? Not many, and yet we desire to be compared to doctors and lawyers?

The doctors and lawyers must get a real hoot out of that one.

 

[pc12_driver]

Does anyone know if Starstruck is hiring? I don't see a contact to send resume's to on the website.

 

[aeronautic1]

It is very politically incorrect to say something that seems to criticize a dead pilot, but CFIT is an inexcusable error, in my opinion.

We are either the independent, intelligent, self-reliant professionals that we claim to be, or we are a bunch of trained apes flipping switches and reading out of manuals and checklists.

The sad thing is that we all go to work with a professional attitude.
Climb into the seat and preflight by checklist. Get the ATIS/Clearance and load the FMS. Everything goes smoothly and then there is a sequence of errors that, if the chain of events is not recognized or broken, the end result will be tragic. And it happens to 2500 hour pilots as well as 19,000 hour pilots. Its mission-itis that bites more pilots is the arse. Fly smart 'yall.

 

[400A]

Cfit

In the ongoing war between mother earth and Aluminum objects traveling hundreds of miles an hour,,,, Mother earth has yet to loose.

 

[Ace-of-the-Base]

What's really happening here is quite clear: Modern jet aircraft are becoming so reliable that the only way to crash one is to take a perfectly good airplane and run it into something. The other part of the same problem (if you can call reliability a problem) is that the by-product is that the pilots of recent times have not had to deal with all of the actual emergencies that made us old timers into better pilots. Every advancment has a flip-side. There is no easy answer.

Ace