Originally Posted by
BMEP100
Safe? Absolutely, just like an idle run at the gate with coordination of FODM, Ramp supervisor and ramp control. Right out of the FOM.
Soon will be 40 years of flying without a bruised passenger or a scratch to a plane.
Thanks to a couple of you who responded just as I would expect... ME FIRST, My wallet, my comfort, my schedule-forget those people in back depending on you to get them to that wedding, funeral, dream vacation flight connection ,......
Good examples of the culture of "ME" that has persisted so long and helped drive away customers.
Funny, as an aside I called the FODM back later that afternoon to ask about engine run pay. He said "already done".
Not everyone here is a self absorbed jerk.
You bring up an important point that many self adsorbed forget .. the majority of the people in the back of the airplane (the paying passengers) aren't just out flying the system for laughs; rather, they have weddings, funerals, sick family, honeymoons, et al. It's our job to get them there, safely. While there are legitimate reasons for declining an airplane, I think we can all agree we've encountered the guys that have inferiority complexes and will needlessly decline an airplane just to stroke their poor pathetic self image ("Look at me, the powerful Captain"). We've also seen the guys that are out looking for missing rivets with a microscope on every walk around solely for delaying the flight. Unfortunately, there's no effective way of measuring maturity before pinning on that fourth stripe.