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Originally Posted by
Probe
1. If a chinese pilot showed up at your airline in the west, and told you what you were doing was all wrong, how do you think your airline would react?
2. All airlines want "warm bodies" filling the pilot seats. We are just numbers to them, no matter where you work.
3. Chinese censorship, or western political correctness police? Is it really that different?
I believe you are having a wet dream of some mythical perfect western pilot job at a major airline. It is different in Asia. Some ways worse, some ways better.
I work at a mythical perfect airline job. I can't wait to go back to Asia and deal with all the "issues". For me, it was less hassle, and the job satisfaction was far better.
And if you are in China, the paycheck is much higher.
I'd like to unpack this a bit, there's a lot in here.
1. If a chinese pilot showed up at your airline in the west...
They day the Chinese can say they invented the aeroplane, invented the jet engine, discovered why square windows on a pressurized vessel don't work, developed CRM and flight deck design... well sir, that day let them come to XYZ airline and lay down the law. Until then, stuffing napkins in vents meant to clear the deck of smoke in an emergent situation WILL NOT FLY.
2. All airlines want "warm bodies"
Thank you for clarifying this for us RE: China. Yet, just because the airline want's a seat filler, that justifies...
huh?!? What in the name of grace is being said here? I think every aviator I know would take the insinuation as a pretty big insult...
3. Chinese censorship, or western political correctness police? Is it really that different?
This is an exceptionally dangerous statement, and speaks volumes about you Probe. Can you tell me the websites that are blocked in, say, the UK? France? The US? There is this thing called the "Great Chinese Firewall" and it is real. YES, it is very, VERY different. Come on now.
...if you are in China, the paycheck is much higher.
Tiptoeing around said paycheck to justify such and such is a
really bad way to proceed if you are trying to convince people in a debate about what is proper and what is not of a professional arena like the flight deck of a transport category jet that may or may not be carrying your mother in the cabin.