Originally Posted by
DeadHead
Honestly, I really didn't research the amount of accidents. That being said, the ultimately goal is to a percent have almost no deaths related to car accidents.
The same goal carries heavier to an aviation. It may take more skill and constant attention to drive a car, but it take a lot more decision making and planning to fly an aircraft.
Working at LCC, I can see where your resentment and bitterness comes form. I think it's criminal what Doug Parker has done to your pilot group over there. That being said, I think you comparisons and assertions about aviation are inappropriate.
My point is that increasingly it is
not the pilots who make the decisions. They are tasked with carrying out the decisions that
others have made. It takes a lot of people to fly an airliner. Many different hands are on the controls. Dispatchers, ATC, maintenance control and the company all have more influence than the average pilot. Added layers of technology also reduce the pilots input even more as computers take over what were formerly a pilots job.
As time has gone by pilots have gone from being a path breaking astronaut grade pioneer to that of a non-thinking automaton. In training individuals are forced through a standardization mill and come out as rote memory robots. We go though the day repeating the same things over and over again. The best a pilot can do is to stick to the path and have a reference in the manual to site in case of a deviation.
Skyhigh