Tool of the day
11-27-2012, 04:41 AM
#3281
Runs with scissors
Joined APC: Dec 2009
Position: Going to hell in a bucket, but enjoying the ride .
Posts: 7,756
The point is, we have conditioned the flying public to expect "Perfect One Hundred Percent Accident Free Airline" service, on time, in the snow, for $49.
Maybe instead of telling everyone how easy it is to fly jets (psst, it's much easier than props), if we had more like Captain Tool Box, to tell them that every flight is a near death situation, where they will be hurtling towards earth at 500mph, and only the highest skilled human beings in the world, can save you from certain death, we might have a little more public/political support, next time Management cuts our pay 42% and flushes our retirement down the toilet and we want to have a Job Action.
Instead we have instilled the, "You just push buttons" mentality in our pax. Delta has taken that one step further by actually showing a Captain in uniform, pushing a button marked "FLY", in their new on board saftey videos.
Thank God for Capt. Manno, at least he blows it up to the point where...now I'm afraid to fly!
Oopps...gotta go to work today, I hope we get the long runway in NRT!
11-28-2012, 10:19 AM
#3284
Da Hudge
Joined APC: Oct 2006
Position: Poodle Whisperer
Posts: 17,473
11-28-2012, 11:30 AM
#3285
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jan 2008
Position: blueJet
Posts: 4,536
11-28-2012, 04:30 PM
#3287
The Brown Dot +1
Joined APC: Jun 2009
Position: 777B
Posts: 7,775
11-28-2012, 04:43 PM
#3289
Gets Weekends Off
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Joined APC: Apr 2009
Posts: 1,579
Basic background from a FDX pilot that called me. Capt. Tool gets up using the door one PA and introduces himself and the Fo as Tom Selleck and Tom Cruise. Mentions how he flew fighters in the air force, likes to fly fast and that is why he has lost his hair. Points out some follicly challanged pax and mentions they must like to go fast also. There is more but the witness had to fly and will get back to me later with the date and flt. #.
11-28-2012, 06:35 PM
#3290
Da Hudge
Joined APC: Oct 2006
Position: Poodle Whisperer
Posts: 17,473
Basic background from a FDX pilot that called me. Capt. Tool gets up using the door one PA and introduces himself and the Fo as Tom Selleck and Tom Cruise. Mentions how he flew fighters in the air force, likes to fly fast and that is why he has lost his hair. Points out some follicly challanged pax and mentions they must like to go fast also. There is more but the witness had to fly and will get back to me later with the date and flt. #.
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