Originally Posted by
TiredSoul
What if the problem was a female with a ginormous rack?
Flight safety? Standards?
I don't understand your resistance to this issue. There are people who for a variety of physical reasons are to large to fit into the pilot quarters. If you are, and you jam yourself in, it is unsafe.
Regarding the distain for the posting on a public forum, it doesn't matter how we found out about it so please get off that bandwagon. No names were used.
This is an important issue. If the aircraft were to stall and enter a dive, would the ill fitting pilot then be leaning on the controls? How do you plan to recover the aircraft? Just one of many examples I can think of.
Male or Female, if you cannot fit in the available space, then you cannot fly that particular model aircraft. If you were on my aircraft, I would be having you sit out of the way of the controls if at all possible. If that was not possible, I would delay the flight until a suitable replacement showed up.
We get paid the money to not just fly the aircraft but to fly it safely in all circumstances. Compromising safety as to not hurt someone's feelings is very wrong headed.