[QUOTE=SkyHigh]There are many daily jobs that have a similar risk level or higher and they don't feel the need to pat themselves on the back as much as pilots feel obligated to. Everyday school bus drivers take into their care our children. Nationally accidents happen almost daily and they don't demand 200K salaries for it. Airline Pilots have one of the safest, redundant, monitored and most automated jobs outside of subway drivers and I don't think it is right to be smug about any "Heroics". SkyHigh QUOTE]

SKY It is points like this that make me wonder if you were really ever an Airline Pilot. Sure many jobs carry risks. Driving to work in your auto carries risk. Comparing a School Bus driver to an Airline Pilot (assuming you were ever one) is pure Toro Caca..........

First a school bus driver is not regulated. A School bus driver only needs a commerical driver's license. Hell they don't even drug test them. I got my commerical Drivers ticket when I was was furloughed several years ago. I studied for 10 minutes and took the written........You claim to have a B-737 Type. Did you study for only 10 minutes before you took your Oral?
Am I to assume that didn't take any work on your part? Didn't you need an ATP before you got your type? Didn't you need your commerical Pilot's license before you got your ATP? Didn't you need you Private Pilot's license before that?......You did not have to un-couple the auto pilot.

Second If a Bus driver has an Engine problems or Electrical Problems or ....god forbid a Fire..........he would simply pull over to the side of the road. Stop the vehicle if you will.........and hopefully get everyone off.......

Since you never were an Airline Capt, maybe you never had to make any Command decisions ..............I guess you'll never know what it is like to have a cabin depressurize or have to fight a fire or shut an engine down at 30 degrees west..........or 170 degrees EAST........with the nearest divert 3 hours away. I guess you were just a Brain Dead First Officer who was nothing more than the CAPT's autopilot..........does that sum it up

I guess AL Haynes in your opinion was just saving his own ASS and didn't give a ****** about anyone else...................

I can't speak for how or what kind of Pilot you were......but by your comments in this post and hundreds of your previous ones, I am not getting a positive picture..........

The pilots I have had the priviledge to work with here and my other 2 airlines
are of the finest quality people I have ever met. The same for my former Military compadres. Most are unselfish and quite humble, although they do exhibit a certain confidence most people only dream of. They are intelligent, gifted and skilled technitions who I trust my with my life.

Comments like yours are simply pathetic........(with a consistent tone of Jealousy)

The only reason I am even posting today on this is that I am on a layover , unfortunately another Holdiay away from home.......................

What's your excuse SKY? Why don't you go throw a baseball with your kids and grill a hot dog.....................Get a Life and leave the Flying to PIlots.