Should This Pilot Be Fired?

[BeenThereDoneIt]

A Captain and and FO on a repo leg in a P180 just had an incident. The Captain decided to do a "test stall" in the aircraft while the FO was saying "no." The FO reported it to the company and the Captain had to go "meet" with the company once again. (The Captain has several incidents/accidents there). Are there safer/smarter pilots on the unemployment line who should be hired in his place?

Kinda reminds me of the 2 guys repoing the regional that night, doing stalls.....and lost it all at 41,000.

 

[brokeflyer]

whats the other side of this story? then i can make a decision.

 

[FLSTCI]

What other side would that be? What business did he have performing a maneuver we assiduouly try to avoid? Even if this captain was a check, he should not have been performing stalls unless it was in a training environment, or during some sort of an aircraft check requiring him to evaluate something like the rig of the flight controls, the stall warning/stall avoidance system, or the like. And in either case, the procedure would have been laid out for them and it would have been briefed by the crew so each pilot knew what to expect. From what is written here it doesn't seem like that happened. I don't mean to bust your chops, brokeflyer...this isn't a personal attack. But, seriously...how could a responsible aviator choose to do something like this?

 

[fischman]

Fly like you train, train like you fly. :erm:

 

[Humphreybogart]

Hey FLSTCI...nice bike!

 

[Amish RakeFight]

Care to elaborate on the extent of this incident?

 

[cynic]

First of off, that FO should not be telling him what to do, nor should anyone else. Secondly, it probably was a spur of the moment decision and we all know it is best to fly by your gut. He was probably manly enough to pull it off and the FO was likely a homosexual. If this guy could get this far as an aviator its unlikely anything could ever happen to him anyway. I guess there is no use in trying to explain this to you morons so I'll just give up.

Does anyone know if he said 'any traffic in the area please advise?' I usually do that before I do stalls because its the right thing to do.

 

[CA1900]

Does anyone know if he said 'any traffic in the area please advise?' I usually do that before I do stalls because its the right thing to do.

:laugh:

Priceless.

 

[corpflunkie]

BTDI is passing 3rd or 4th hand knowledge again I see. Why don't you stick to what you know,,, flightinstructing or something

 

[gutshotdraw]

Fly like you train, train like you fly. :erm:

Train for your job, fly for your life