Banned?

[OFSO]

Back to the saintly bearded bloke with a cigar who wore camouflage 24 hours a day - socialist acquaintances (I won't say friends) pointed out the crowds of sad-face mourners attending his memorial in Havana as evidence of his popularity. OTOH France 24 TV today interviewed Cubans who were bused from their villages on a more-or-less compulsory basis to swell the crowds (or even to constitute the crowds.)

I see Junckers has praised Castro, if ever-so-faintly. Gives us an idea what's to come when Junckers takes over Europe.

[A Lutra Continua]

...I tell ya these snowflakes will cause you ATC violations as well as trying to kill you if you don't watch the little sh!ts like a hawk.

Pity it's regarded as unkulturnyy to exercise your authority as captain and make the little waste of blood and organs walk the plank. There are times it take almost all my self control not to lean across the console and repeatedly stab it in the throat with a biro.

[BenThere]

Except the youngun' in the right seat is learning his trade from the wizened geezer sitting to his left, making the big bucks.

Now that I'm retired after 40 years of flying, I can confess to having made many mistakes. Often times, the guy in the left seat let me make them, letting me learn from the error, so long as no jeopardy to safety was involved. As I matured, I think I learned to recognize mistakes in the making, just like the many captains I had flown with had. And when I got to the left seat, and even when I was experienced in the right seat flying with a new captain, I learned to keep my own eye out for incorrect procedures and poor decisions, and pipe up to correct them. I think that's how it should work in the cockpit.

I came up with this myself, a long time ago:

The new pilot flies for survival.
The journeyman pilot flies for competence.
The master pilot (captain) flies for elegance.

When you stand in the cockpit door as the passengers file out at the end of a flight, and you get multiple compliments on the smoothness of the flight and the nice landing, you've probably done your job avoiding the pitfalls of aviation one more time.

[A Lutra Continua]

That would be the right way to do things if the bloke was there on merit, having done the hard yards. Sadly, all too often they're there because they (meaning daddy) could afford to pay for the type rating and the course that walks them through a flawed interview process which is there to identify robots with company specific attributes. Once through the training sausage machine they're the poor bloke in the left seat's problem. They have pretty much zero idea of the basics and little grasp of real world concepts.

[Stoneboat]

Back to the saintly bearded bloke with a cigar who wore camouflage 24 hours a day - socialist acquaintances (I won't say friends) pointed out the crowds of sad-face mourners attending his memorial in Havana as evidence of his popularity. OTOH France 24 TV today interviewed Cubans who were bused from their villages on a more-or-less compulsory basis to swell the crowds (or even to constitute the crowds.)

I see Junckers has praised Castro, if ever-so-faintly. Gives us an idea what's to come when Junckers takes over Europe.

Steyn Online: A Monster and His Suck-ups.

As the Swedish author Johan Norberg remarked:
When I die, I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like Fidel Castro, not screaming in terror, like his victims.