Originally Posted by
Birdsmash
Rubber bands, besides not being approved by the manufacturer, start a path down the slippery slope of non-compliance. What seems like a small thing carries over to other behaviors to the point of normalization of deviance. If you wouldn’t do it with the FAA watching, you shouldn’t do it in other daily line ops. It’s as simple as that.
Give me a break.
The 77 is one giant pile of technique that somehow made it into “procedure”.
Then you ask for a reference or guidance and nobody knows who or when or why they started doing it.
Flying with one earcup of your headset is re-tah-ded in 2025.
If you can keep the intercom on continuously with the joke switch you can do it with a rubber band.
Same thing end of story.
Atlas bought a hillbilly bankrupt airline in 2016 and should have purged the entire training department including DE’s.
They didn’t so they still teach hillbilly procedures and grade you on technique.
Cooperate or you don’t graduate.
Most LcA’s are so unstandardized it’s not even funny not to mention look like homeless people in and out of uniform.
Carry on truckin’
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