Originally Posted by
hoover
Give me a break. As if the FAA has nothing better to do than go looking through the millions of pictures on the Internet to see if a pilot is using their phone below 10k feet.
Actually, apparently at least one person at the FAA does exactly this and my very good buddy got fired. For reals. Union got his regional job back eventually but he's out of airlines now because it was too much of a black mark for the majors.
He's not some self-absorbed tool either who's all over social media, so yeah it can happen to anybody.