Originally Posted by
fartboxflyer
Ford/Cooksey was a joke, and the above scenario is correct, I have my ___ card in, but to spin the above is is slow pitch softball for alpo types to counter. Many bigger fish to fry, like the fact that rest rules and security are not being shouted in the court of public opinion.
It is insane that Alpo has not one billboard in any hub that compares the duty time of a pilot to a truck driver or train engineer........for like the last freakin 20 years! Answer me that Herndon !!!!!
If we went to the same duty time rules as a truck driver your going to have to work the same number of days as a truckdriver to get your hours in. Do you really want to work 20 to 24 days a month? Have you ever driven a truck? Nod of for even a few seconds and you can be toast. Bit different in a aircraft where you have a copilot and there are not idiots driving all around you a few feet away.
Totally different jobs and situations without any valid comparison between the two.