Originally Posted by
Flydafe
We can train anyone to be a pilot. We don’t get blessed by the pope with holy water to be christened to fly. I do not know why so many think that standards will fall. I don’t know why so many think that we have a difficult job. Technology and automation has made this job easy. I’ve seen Netflix on tablets at cruise. I doubt that anyone here on this form is Chuck Yeager. What’s the problem? The airlines know that interest in becoming a pilot is falling off among the youth and are desperate to fill seats ten to twenty years from now.
My observations, first, I do not believe that we can train anyone to be a pilot. And, standards MAY fall because they have fallen in the past.
The guys below knew a lot more about flying airplanes than just pushing GD buttons and following the magenta line.
1. Captain Dave Cronin on UA 811.
2. Captain Al Haynes on UA 232.
3. Captain Christopher Behnam on UA 328.
4. Captain Scott Stopes on UA 1015.
Etc.