2015 Pilot Discussion.

[CactusPilot1]

If a pilot has ever been diagnosed as bi-polar disease and got their medical back, it would be a concern....

Bipolar disorder, formerly called manic depression, causes extreme mood swings that include emotional highs (mania or hypomania) and lows (depression). When you become depressed, you may feel sad or hopeless and lose interest or pleasure in most activities. When your mood shifts in the other direction, you may feel euphoric and full of energy. Mood shifts may occur only a few times a year or as often as several times a week.

The FAA considers this condition disqualifying yet may have allowed a waiver? Considering recent events, they may need to re-evaluate any such waivers.

What medical conditions does the FAA consider disqualifying?

The following conditions are listed in the regulations as disqualifying medical conditions; however, in many cases when the condition is adequately controlled, the FAA will issue medical certification contingent on periodic reports.
Angina pectoris
Bipolar disease
Cardiac valve replacement
Coronary heart disease that has been treated or, if untreated, that has been symptomatic or clinically significant
Diabetes mellitus requiring hypoglycemic medications
Disturbance of consciousness without satisfactory explanation of cause
Epilepsy
Heart replacement
Myocardial infarction
Permanent cardiac pacemaker
Personality disorder that is severe enough to have repeatedly manifested itself by overt acts
Psychosis
Substance abuse
Substance dependence
Transient loss of control of nervous system function(s) without satisfactory explanation of cause.

 

[CactusPilot1]

Too late. With all the AOL video tapes on YouTube, the lawsuits proclaiming the injustice of pilots with more time in service than them giving rise to them to celebrate their righteous cause and the false logbook entries, violent "scab" accusations on these web boards! The APA and ALPA stabbing their profession in the backs, etc. I WELCOME the additional scrutiny, video cameras in the cockpit, 6 month psych exams, babysitters in the cockpit.
I told you this repercussion was going to happen and it sure enough is going to rear its head and require even more regulation than the Colgan crash did.
Welcome to the new 9/11.
The pilots unions will soon be losing their power and I don't want to hear the complaining from the pilots when they don't get any respect after reading this forum and the other one for all these years.

If you are so offended by a YouTube videos, web postings and lawsuits, maybe you should be the one we are concerned about.

 

[Metroyet]

If you are so offended by a YouTube videos, web postings and lawsuits, maybe you should be the one we are concerned about.

He CAUSED that reaction. Typical easthole pointing fingers in all directions except themselves.

 

[CactusPilot1]

He CAUSED that reaction. Typical easthole pointing fingers in all directions except themselves.

I think the West pilot group help up pretty well considering the constant attacks initiated by the fake union. There is no pilot group that would have tolerated their behavior and the hostile working environment initiated by USAPA.

 

[end_of_alpa]

If you are so offended by a YouTube videos, web postings and lawsuits, maybe you should be the one we are concerned about.

What/  For pointing them out?  I don't loose sleep over the shenanigans DB.  I do my job, my life is great.  Maybe YOU should be looking in the mirror (both the one in front of you and the rear view)???

 

[end_of_alpa]

I think the West pilot group help up pretty well considering the constant attacks initiated by the fake union. There is no pilot group that would have tolerated their behavior and the hostile working environment initiated by USAPA.

Oh?  Like the other pilot groups would have sent MORE crap in the mail or lobbed MORE threatening "scab" words at us or denied MORE jumpseats or ...... I don't think I need to go on.  It's futile to debate with former West BPR reps that are, well....FORMER!

 

[CactusPilot1]

Oh?  Like the other pilot groups would have sent MORE crap in the mail or lobbed MORE threatening "scab" words at us or denied MORE jumpseats or ...... I don't think I need to go on.  It's futile to debate with former West BPR reps that are, well....FORMER!

1) Are you trying to convince everyone on this board that your side's behavior is commendable?

2) The crap in the mail was found in court to be exactly that. A crap lawsuit, thrown out.

 

[end_of_alpa]

1) Are you trying to convince everyone on this board that your side's behavior is commendable?

2) The crap in the mail was found in court to be exactly that. A crap lawsuit, thrown out.

It is what it is.

 

[EastUS1]

He CAUSED that reaction. Typical easthole pointing fingers in all directions except themselves.

 
Might one assume that will be the "defense" for the logbook issue as well? = "The other kids MADE me/us do it!"....?
 
Grow Up.

 

[FL430]

I'm not sure a cockpit voice recorder with a pilot beating on the cockpit door and the aircraft in OPEN DES with the FCU set to 100' is the slightest bit ambiguous.
If you had listened to the absurdities being proposed for our profession, from psych exams to streaming video cameras from the cockpit, this morning on the news, you would see that if we don't get our heads out of the sand and provide some leadership, others will force career changing impositions on us whether we like it or not.
The media is going to force some kind of over-reaction if at all possible. Many of their so called experts are serious idiots...

How do you know it was in OPEN DES? Could have been in FPA -X.X , or even VERT SPEED - XXXX

 

[A320 Driver]

That is what I read in a news report. But, does it really matter??

 

[end_of_alpa]

That is what I read in a news report. But, does it really matter??

No.....no, not really.  How truly sad.  For all those souls lost.  
 
May the supreme being be kind to all of them and their families.

 

[FL430]

That is what I read in a news report. But, does it really matter??

I guess only to the attorneys, unfortunately.

God bless their souls, may they rest in peace.

 

[EastUS1]

Too late. With all the AOL video tapes on YouTube, the lawsuits proclaiming the injustice of pilots with more time in service than them giving rise to them to celebrate their righteous cause and the false logbook entries, violent "scab" accusations on these web boards!

 
I must reasonably take severe exception to that, in that none of "their" (a small percentage) absurdly childish antics in ANY way, shape or form even remotely suggest the slightest reasonable comparison with sucidially insane, murderous sociopaths that care nothing for the lives of others. The arrested development needed to fantasize a supposed "Army" is of some concern, though mostly a harmless source of curiosity and derisive laughter, but I've met enough west pilots who, if commanding an aircraft, I'd cheerfully place my loved ones aboard their plane.
 
Should that seem at all cross-threaded; I'll again note that my rantings here are always and exclusively aimed at at least hopefully disabusing some their "knights" and "dire wolves" of their adolescent fantasies...and confessedly; for some continuing chuckles. Said "knights"etc, not being a universal illness within the PHX pilots as a whole.
 
Perhaps what we all should be better asking ourselves is what we can do, as fellow pilots, to best prevent any such tragedies in the future...not that we've any say on who the Germans hire to fly their planes or their ops protocols, but reviewing how best to always keep those in our charge safe, at least to the very best of our abilities, might well be timely in this too-often-crazy world of ours.

 

[EastUS1]

God bless their souls, may they rest in peace.

 
 Amen. Especially if it's indeed the case that they were murdered by a completely insane and only supposed "pilot"; the very least all of us can decently do is offer prayers for them.