2015 Pilot Discussion.

[EastUS1]

If he gets fired, AOL will have another excuse for a "massive fundraising" letter and meet and greet announcement. Things appear dire, but with your help we can be on the precipice of victory!!

West passions got "G. Nicolau III" fired? How poetically ironic.

And oh yeah... The West's "Integrity Matters" campaign has a new poster boy... And he can moonlight for the "Smooth Move Ex-Lax" jokes.

 
And the term "village idiot" can apparently now be given a face. What a sad and sorry situation for everyone. After all; this isn't the sort of thing that could even possibly lead to FAA auditing and/or additional scrutiny to at least the company's log books or anything...Right?

 

[WNMECH]

The Germanwings crash has brought increased scrutiny on pilot psychological screening.
 
Where do you think they should start looking for pilots in mental distress?
 
Hmm?

 

[WNMECH]

It seems a little quiet here.
 
Did something put the childish ranting into perspective? 

 

[Claxon]

Can at least one of the news "experts" mention the fact that one pilot is required to don an O2 mask if other pilot leaves the cockpit?
 
Can at least one of the news "experts" mention the flight data recorder was found and the "chip" was missing that contains data in airbus manufacturer territory?
 
Your thoughts please?

 

[luvthe9]

It seems a little quiet here.
 
Did something put the childish ranting into perspective?

I think you should be more worried about doing all the required maintenance inspections that haven't been done on your fleet along with paying those FAA fines.

 

[WNMECH]

Why?
I am not in finance or maintenance planning.
 
But I do travel on aircraft with pilots at the controls.

 

[Claxon]

A local prosecutor in France solved the mystery surrounding the accident in less than 24 four hours and is the major spokesperson for news outlet fact dissemination?
 
In the US it takes at least a year by the NTSB to come to such a determination.
 
The Airbus is manufactured in France and Germany, did the prosecutor at least have some kind of contact with them to garner some facts.........   Er, never mind.

 

[CAVOK]

I think you should be more worried about doing all the required maintenance inspections that haven't been done on your fleet along with paying those FAA fines.

Too funny. I was my thoughts exactly. I suppose that he figured that he'd rather come up with childish taunts and insults. Childish either way.
 
What ever happened to the Air Tran and Morris Air pilots? They didn't even get DOH, did they? Just stapled? 
 
Is there a discussion board on the APA site that is password and member protected to get information on where people are required to post their names? I asked this last week, but I'll ask again.   

 

[EastUS1]

A local prosecutor in France solved the mystery surrounding the accident in less than 24 four hours and is the major spokesperson for news outlet fact dissemination?
 
In the US it takes at least a year by the NTSB to come to such a determination.
 
The Airbus is manufactured in France and Germany, did the prosecutor at least have some kind of contact with them.........   Er, never mind.

 
I had much the same thoughts.  Historically; dead pilots are ALWAYS "at fault", unless fully proven otherwise, so I'll wait to hear much more on this before jumping to ANY conclusions.

 

[nycbusdriver]

 
 
Is there a discussion board on the APA site that is password and member protected to get information on where people are required to post their names? I asked this last week, but I'll ask again.   

 
Yes, there is.

 

[N924PS]

A local prosecutor in France solved the mystery surrounding the accident in less than 24 four hours and is the major spokesperson for news outlet fact dissemination?
 
In the US it takes at least a year by the NTSB to come to such a determination.
 
The Airbus is manufactured in France and Germany, did the prosecutor at least have some kind of contact with them to garner some facts.........   Er, never mind.

When a disgruntled USAir employee that had been terminated for stealing company monies shot down PSA 1771 on 12-7-1987 it was determined within a few hours it was a criminal act, and reported as such. Minimal NTSB investigation.

Foreign states handle aircraft accidents as possible criminal acts and prosecute and incarcerate those they believe responsible. Law enforcement runs the show not the Air Accident investigators.

It was reported an unknown individual was seen on a grassy knoll in the Alps just prior to the accident.....

 

[end_of_alpa]

Yes, there is.

It's called the bathroom wall.

 

[A320 Driver]

I had much the same thoughts.  Historically; dead pilots are ALWAYS "at fault", unless fully proven otherwise, so I'll wait to hear much more on this before jumping to ANY conclusions.

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...

 

[EastUS1]

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.

The media is going to force some kind of over-reaction if at all possible. Many of their so called experts are serious idiots...

 
1) No, that isn't the least bit ambiguous. I wasn't aware of that at the time of my posting.
 
2) Sadly so.

 

[end_of_alpa]

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...

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.