Originally Posted by
rickair7777
The traveling public wouldn't tolerate the night cargo fatality rate for long. The media was making noise about their safety statistics a few months ago...now replace a few bags of CANX checks with 50 pax and see how much attention you would get...
I agree. The public and management will not tolerate it either when the cause of all airline crashes gets narrowed down to just the two meat sacks up front.
An airliner full of passengers is way to valuable to let a bored FO practice his ILS procedures in actual conditions or attempt to maintain straight and level during cruse with the new 1000' separation minimums. Soon all that stuff will be limited to exclusively simulator sessions. Many airlines are already there except for occasional short periods during VFR.
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