XJT First Officer Roberts = Hero of Life

[COOPERVANE]

By the way, as far as radiation, if you didn't know it already, you as a pilot are already getting more radiation by flying at altitude than doing a couple of xrays a week at the doctors office.

Yes, we ALL know it. And we didn't have to go to riddle to learn it either.

So let me make sure I understand. We are already getting the equivalent of 100 chest X-rays per year what's another 100?....300? Who knows?

Is that really your argument?

 

[CFIT]

Wait a minute. Pilots are not super human and with clean records just because were pilots. All we have to do is a 10 year general background check to have access to a cockpit. It's not like we do the Delta psychotic test or a military background check. Just because we wear a monkey suit at the airport doesn't mean we are above being searched. Someone will always abuse a loophole, next thing you know we'll have another Fedex style attempted takeover in flight.



By the way, as far as radiation, if you didn't know it already, you as a pilot are already getting more radiation by flying at altitude than doing a couple of xrays a week at the doctors office.

I'm not saying that all pilots have a clean record, or that there maybe some that shouldn't be flying. My point is that why go through the puppet dance when the pilot is the guidance system of a 40 ton missle and has a crash axe behind his seat and a 12 guage flare gun?

Plus the manufactor of the scanners originally reported the the level of radiation much higher than what the TSA does. Still not lethal but much higher. Why risk it?

No scanners, and private screening, I don't care how late I am. If every airline pilot insisted on this, the policy would be changed by the end of the day.

If some third world jihadist with a green card can bypass security to work in the food court, what's the point?

Nobody wants to say it, but, PROFILING!

 

[great cornholio]

Wait a minute. Pilots are not super human and with clean records just because were pilots. All we have to do is a 10 year general background check to have access to a cockpit. It's not like we do the Delta psychotic test or a military background check. Just because we wear a monkey suit at the airport doesn't mean we are above being searched. Someone will always abuse a loophole, next thing you know we'll have another Fedex style attempted takeover in flight.



By the way, as far as radiation, if you didn't know it already, you as a pilot are already getting more radiation by flying at altitude than doing a couple of xrays a week at the doctors office.

Any screening that the TSA can do can not stop a Fedex style takeover. Why go thru the hassle of carrying a hammer when you can use the crash axe?

 

[Hamburger]

By the way, as far as radiation, if you didn't know it already, you as a pilot are already getting more radiation by flying at altitude than doing a couple of xrays a week at the doctors office.

We've got thousands of research subjects who've done dozens of years exposed to airplane background radiation and are pretty certain of it's effects.
These TSA scanners that were invented last year................not so much.
Lipitor, Crestor, Celebrex, Vytorin, Vioxx, Effoxor, Ambien, etc...................All rushed to market and signed off as safe by the same people who say the new scanners are harmless. Now all recalled/facing class action suits. Feel free to be a guinea pig, not me.

 

[pipers]

Yep! And now you see why many people don't want the governments hand in our healthcare system! Anything thats run by the government is pretty much a money suckin' joke!

yup. This country needs a few more 'blackwaters' and less DOD. Those Marines!

 

[Wankel7]

Whats next...a pilot refusing the breathalyzer at the station and then be hailed a hero by alcoholics around the nation while he losses his pilots license for a while?

He refuses the body scanner. Fine. But refusing the pat down...why?

 

[dogg]

When we get to the point where the events of 9/11 cannot be duplicated, the planners and supporters of 9/11 will have won. Period. The events that unfolded on 9/11 were not an attack on US citizens, they were an attack on the very concept of America... I would much rather live with the possibility than the government that will prevent it..........

 

[CX880]

Any screening that the TSA can do can not stop a Fedex style takeover. Why go thru the hassle of carrying a hammer when you can use the crash axe?

Well then at least every measure was taken so that the person didn't bring anything in that cockpit. At least with the axe someone might see them going for it. The point is their job, even though they suck at it, is to prevent someone from bringing something illegal inside an airplane. Once they're on board, it's up to the crew.

 

[Midge]

Shut up and get in the damn machine you little sissies. Nobody wants to see your small wieners. They are looking for weapons and explosives that blow up babies and mommies. Everybody is subject to the screening; you are not special. Did they frisk you a little briskly? You poor little bitches...

I could care less if anyone wants to see my small manhood. With that being said, why is it that the ramp workers aren't subject to screening? Sometimes these people look like they just made parole, yet pilots, who are subject to the most stringent background checks, are subject to this.
Enquiring minds and all that.

 

[Freebrd]

yep didn't ATL try to have all employees (incl rampers) go thru security for a day or three and gave that up? get the pat down and back em up yea buddy

 

[sayrejm]

So all a ramper has to do is bring a bomb to work, stick it in the back of the cargo bin after he wakes up from his nap back there and off we go? And I AM THE ONE getting the strip search? That is F-ed up.

 

[BigPappa]

Rampers don't have to go through security? WTF?? Either screen all or what is the point of screening.

 

[FORESTGUMP]

. How many times have you seen the news where rampers are caught up in illegal activities.[/QUOTE]

Not nearly as often as democrats and tv preachers

 

[clr4theapch]

STOP THE POOR LANGUAGE PLEASE... you have education's use them.. this thread is boarderline being closed...