United Settles "Cockpit Porn" Case

[JohnQ]

I thought pilots are supposed to be intelligent and factual; yet you are getting spun by FOX news like a yo-yo.

Did you notice FOX didn't mentioned that she found the pictures being TAPED to the stick shakers...more than 20 TIMES.

Entitlement...seems to be you are the one feeling entitled to the cockpit because it is named so, and women are playing in your playground, take it or leave it right?!

Politically correct BS worthy of (morbidly obese) Michael Moore (by the way, does Michael Moore's claim to represent the "common folk" while he eats enough daily calories to feed three strike you as lunacy?).

Nowhere--including in the Seattle Times article--was the porn referenced as located anywhere but "hidden"--including taped "under the cap" of the stick shaker.

This...person of XX chromosomes...could only have found the offending material by making a detailed search for it. The fact that she "grounded herself" tells me that she didn't really like flying, was undoubtedly a hysterical Oprah-worshiper and was trying to find an easy way to suck the blood from the system. She had a lawyer all too happy to accommodate her.

Or if hidden porn is so offensive, why did she not mind working at a retail store in a prior life where the stuff was actually sold? (And I assume that at least a few times she may have sold it herself, thought the Seattle Times article doesn't get into details).

Oh, and it is indeed a cockpit, not a flight deck, just like a rooster says "cock-a-doodle-do" and not some other stupid PC substitute.

 

[Caflying]

I'm amazed that you guys are married and have daughters....

 

[Jim Smyth]

You never find Porn in the Cockpit unless your specifically looking for it. God Bless America.

 

[knowlimits]

United has female pilots? Whe did this happen?

 

[F/O]

UAL is an atrocious company stacked with pilot-hating robber baron upper management. Who could blame her for wanting to take them to the cleaners? I don't.

I wish more pilots there could get away with this crap....call it replacing the pension that was stolen from them....

 

[BOX OFFICE]

"Hidden" like the contents of Pandora's Box?

She was looking for a payday. A female Captain at UAL has most likely eaten a lot to sit in the left seat at a major. I doubt she needed to ground herself. I guess this was her big FU to the airline that hired her and gave her a chance. What a POS. A pporn mag is not that disturbing.... especially when most of these female pilots are so butchy that they might as well be males.

Now, now, don't take out your sexual frustration (lack of any action at all) on all female pilots! Not all of us are as you describe!

I'll go ahead and say that this chick was wound a little too tight. So you find some porn... big deal! It's not like "it's" something we've never seen before! I just take it in stride and install some chick porn (nude guys), then watch the guys squirm!

Just because there's a bunch of butch old grandmas with no sense of humor, don't take it out on all of us!

 

[Whataburger]

United hired women?

 

[Shrek]

Now, now, don't take out your sexual frustration (lack of any action at all) on all female pilots! Not all of us are as you describe!

I'll go ahead and say that this chick was wound a little too tight. So you find some porn... big deal! It's not like "it's" something we've never seen before! I just take it in stride and install some chick porn (nude guys), then watch the guys squirm!

Just because there's a bunch of butch old grandmas with no sense of humor, don't take it out on all of us!

It makes me laugh every time when I find the female version.........fair is fair.

 

[TheInsider]

Do you remember a while back when McDonald's was sued by a woman who spilled some really, really hot coffee in her lap? After McDonald's had to dish out millions they decided it was a good idea to change/modify all their coffee makers. After all, they had been sued, and lost, before but it was worth it as the changing/modification of the coffee makers was very costly. Some of these big corporations only understands one thing: A big payout after a major lawsuit. I bet that United, Alaska etc. definitely will take it seriously if they ever get another complaint of porn in the cockpit again. Personally, I would be slightly offended but most of all, extremely embarrassed on behalf of my co-workers. How childish and immature.

 

[Ty Webb]

. Personally, I would be slightly offended but most of all, extremely embarrassed on behalf of my co-workers. How childish and immature.

Grow the f@ck up, Mr. Rogers . . . . I'm sure you fly with a different pilot every week . . . and wonder why.

 

[AC560]

Just another case of Encouraging an entitlement mentality like Ms. Stout's. The mentality that suggests that one can be a complete dumbass and get paid money for it. This is a major factor in the degradation of the quality of life in America.

Which would effectively be the basis of all union employment. You really can't have your cake and eat it as well I am afraid.

 

[Trash8Mofo]

I'm amazed that you guys are married and have daughters....

I'd tell my daughter "oh, dear, don't be such a stuck-up cxxt, it's just a joke, I am not showing you what you don't already have or will have anyways. This is a men's world, you might as well learn now or you gonna have a hard time."

 

[~~~^~~~]

Now, now, don't take out your sexual frustration (lack of any action at all) on all female pilots! Not all of us are as you describe!

True, true ....

Glad you are on the board ....

 

[~~~^~~~]

The article does not say what the case settled for. I heard it settled for a pack of smokes, a promise not to sue United anymore and a signed copy of the Bay Minette Aviation 2009 Calendar:

http://www.bayminetteaviation.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=29

They have a government fuel contract and when you fly in there you would think this was the only place the US Navy and Army can get gas in the lower 48. They stay busy. Just try not to get run over by a formation of T34's if you go there.

Free Pizza.

 

[Lear70]

This is a men's world, you might as well learn now or you gonna have a hard time."

No, it's not.

It *used* to be a man's world, now the pendulum has shifted. Women get preference in hiring, they are being retained while the men are being let go (70% of the people laid off or let go in this downturn have been men), and you've got a big shift starting for women being the primary bread winners in the home.

I personally like the equality shift; always kind of funny to tell the girl when she starts making more money than you that she gets to pay more of the bills... they just don't seem to like that part of the equation.

Seriously though, B.O., you always have had a pretty good attitude for the industry. If more WIA were like you, we'd probably all have a little more fun out there instead of always having to wonder if the girl we're flying with is cool or if we're going to crack a joke and end up in the Chief Pilot's office...

Incidentally, this one has been brewing for a couple years now, I remember hearing about the "offended porn-finding chick" back when I was at PCL. From the info that trickled around back then, she was looking for her meal ticket for a while...

So many people would have loved to have her career, what a shame people like that end up in aviation.