Originally Posted by
80ktsClamp
I know how things used to be, slow. I've been exposed to this industry longer than you have.
Justifying a degradation in safety by saying "well we used to" doesn't work that great when it was much more common to die in an accident then.
Get off my lawn, slow.
I realize that as the entitled child of an airline pilot you felt "exposed to the industry." Sailing has been flying since before you were born. And I if I've got your birth year correct you actually haven't been exposed longer than me.
Watching your dad pack for work, spending a couple of years at a regional and getting hired at the ripe old age of 25 doesn't provide you with a whole lot of background. Your shallow comments on this site haven't shown that you've really made
the varsity (damn, that word again ;-))...btw, how many of those accidents at DAL were attributed to the call window?
There's a lesson in Gran Torino somewhere. I guess you missed it.