Originally Posted by
proskuneho
Basic FOI - Primacy. Those guys were taught the importance of a good runup in their training aircraft. Taking a second or two to remember "back in the day" when we were equally ignorant might give us the opportunity to quell the concerns of these people. Remember, they COULD choose to ride the bus like John Madden instead of flying and creating more jobs for us. I also wonder how many pilots that laugh at the "ignorant" questions got hired with 250 hrs TT and couldn't find their hind end with both hands. Hopefully experience and maturity can help each pilot to correlate passenger comfort/peace of mind with their job security. Be a diplomat. Your career may depend on it.
Quite frankly ,believe it or not ,I do agree with you, but you miss the point, You would think however uneducated, if a new pilot didnt understand somthing going on an airliner he was in, he might take a moment to ask, I always try to be polite when one asks if I have time after we deplane to answer some questions. But running to the Faa about it. All he did was cause some hassle for some pilots who did nothing wrong, and I dare say had he done it to you, you wouldnt have been diplomatic....