"Yeah, we were at 1,000' AGL doing 1,500 feet per minute, and I realized right then that the gear wasn't down, but I figured landing was the safer course of action."


Who among us, upon reading this safety report would not marvel at how stupid that pilot was?


I thought we were supposed to approach these landing thingies with the mentality that we would go around, and be pleasantly surprised if we could land. We're not on fire. The wing is not about to fall off. The world is not about to stop rotating on its axis or revolving around the sun if we take it around, run the appropriate checklists, check the weather, and line our ducks up for another shot.

If we were simply talking about hourly pay rates or some other quality of life issues, I might understand the willingness to suck it up and take what we can get now. But that's a very shortsighted perspective when you consider we're talking about the very last paycheck you may ever collect, the retirement check. I intend to retire healthy and collect a whole lot of those things, and I'm not willing to accept a quick, meager payout of pay rate increase now to sacrifice the future we deserve. Landing this pig now won't win me any awards, and it will in fact result in another one of those "I should have gone around" moments.


Fascination with the Goal -- it doesn't usually lead to the best decisions.

"we hope that your decision will be to join us in our yes vote." Why? Do you need that affirmation?



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