Originally Posted by Lambourne

Well you are lying because the Strike was in 1985. You are a full 10 years off the mark on that one. We are fortunate to have a group of pilots that don't take kindly to those that SCAB our jobs. We don't forget and we assure the SCABS don't either.

Glad you take your employment advice from your wife.

As to the MDW accident. You have a carrier that refuses to allow the use of auto-thrust, auto brakes, VNAV. What did the lack of these items have to do with the MDW crash? It reflects the company's personality of cowboy flying. BUR comes to mind as another good example. These items don't necessarily create a safer flight but they are workload tools. What about the 2 hours before the crash that they were managing the airplane in a manner that would have been eased if they had access to auto-throttles? Dumbing down the airplane to meet the Pay For Training new hires that SWA takes is a shame on the carrier. These items are tools that can add to the safety of a flight if you let them. Think the two guys that said they did not know the SOP needed to take the highest performance hit that made it illegal for them to land would have preferred to have more BB's to use in the planning? Give them throttles and they have one less thing to worry about.

I believe I did read they had used autobrakes on this approach against company SOP's also. In this instance they missed the real truth behind A/B's The shortest stopping distance does not come from A/B but max manual pressure as soon as touchdown. If the "rentasim" they used to get their type rating had explained this then perhaps they would have known about autobrakes and the proper use of them.