Reply With QuoteNah, I'm always ready to take to the skied for a mini-adventure!
Flying the Friendly Skies?
Anyone have a different view of flying lately with the string of false alarms, and the arrests in england?
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Nah, I'm always ready to take to the skied for a mini-adventure!
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- -- Aristotle
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I quit flying when they stopped all smoking on the planes.
You get more with a kind word and a two by four than you do with just a kind word.
LOL I would have liked to quit then too.Originally Posted by Gaffer
Heard the latest on the Comair crash ? Only one flight controller on duty and he had to do paperwork and did not verify the airplane was on the right runway....Profit over safety.
Someone on the right remind us again as to why busting PATCO was a "good" idea?
"A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having."
-- V
Yeah, blame him. Not like the pilots were supposed to verify their heading....
Flying the Friendly Skies
Because BitBurg Ronnie who said that Luftwaffe pilots suffered as much as Jews in the Holocaust under Hitler, really didn't understand why just anyone couldn't tell a pilot to go ahead and land the damn thing.
this is true, multiple people at fault. The final responsibility is the pilots or perhaps the copilots who was the only survivor. Talk about irony if it was his fault.
Even before all the safety and terrorism concerns, flying became so unpleasant that we both decided to take extra time and drive. It's such a hassle getting out of here anyway (no jet service!) that it isn't worth it.
Yeah Thorn, I only flew on business, but that was a lot. Luckially my business flights pretty well stopped right before 911. Now with all the security delays it is often as fast to drive is it is not more than 4-5 hours drive.
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