Delta Pilot Intimidation
02-05-2026 | 01:24 PM
#453
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I don’t get why people look back on RA’s and SD’s tenures with admiration. They were not pilot advocates and made a lot of poor decisions. RA’ backround was as Lorenzo’s union-busting attorney ffs. Each had a big boo-boo on their way out. RA with TA1.
and SD being complicit in/condoning retaliating against a whistleblower (which also eventually cost him his job leading the FAA). Oh, and he hired Jim Graham, a total POS, who in turn accelerated the cascade of worsening management in flight ops. Every current bad actor in flight ops is a part of the Graham hiring tree. He would have loved these letters. Enough said.
p.s. Microsoft Surface
and SD being complicit in/condoning retaliating against a whistleblower (which also eventually cost him his job leading the FAA). Oh, and he hired Jim Graham, a total POS, who in turn accelerated the cascade of worsening management in flight ops. Every current bad actor in flight ops is a part of the Graham hiring tree. He would have loved these letters. Enough said.
p.s. Microsoft Surface
Also - the whistleblower is nuts. There is a 100+ page court filing detailing the entire story from way before she was grounded. Read that, plus the grandiosity and website and books, and her recent social media and there is no question why they believed she was nuts.
The problem is that they handled it terribly.
02-05-2026 | 04:54 PM
#454
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I don't want to wade to far into it...I have read every filing from that case, across years and years. The company paid a crooked shrink orders of magnitude more than market cost for a psych test to get their preferred diagnosis. Said shrink had to forfeit his license as a result.
A panel of doctors at the Mayo clinic rejected the company's diagnosis.
The whistleblower was completely vindicated in the end. Graham was a bad actor, and Dickson was on board every step of the way.
02-05-2026 | 06:23 PM
#455
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Joined: Sep 2015
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you understand once you meet all the requirements of an unrestricted ATP, removing the restriction is just paperwork right?
02-05-2026 | 10:31 PM
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“Congrats man! That’s awesome! So glad to hear. Good to see people acknowledged.”
Was pretty awkward when he explained it was a joke and he meant the bathroom
Liked him as an instructor though.
02-06-2026 | 02:05 AM
#457
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Shocking. Another company-centric position.
I don't want to wade to far into it...I have read every filing from that case, across years and years. The company paid a crooked shrink orders of magnitude more than market cost for a psych test to get their preferred diagnosis. Said shrink had to forfeit his license as a result.
A panel of doctors at the Mayo clinic rejected the company's diagnosis.
The whistleblower was completely vindicated in the end. Graham was a bad actor, and Dickson was on board every step of the way.
I don't want to wade to far into it...I have read every filing from that case, across years and years. The company paid a crooked shrink orders of magnitude more than market cost for a psych test to get their preferred diagnosis. Said shrink had to forfeit his license as a result.
A panel of doctors at the Mayo clinic rejected the company's diagnosis.
The whistleblower was completely vindicated in the end. Graham was a bad actor, and Dickson was on board every step of the way.
02-06-2026 | 02:25 AM
#458
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Shocking. Another company-centric position.
I don't want to wade to far into it...I have read every filing from that case, across years and years. The company paid a crooked shrink orders of magnitude more than market cost for a psych test to get their preferred diagnosis. Said shrink had to forfeit his license as a result.
A panel of doctors at the Mayo clinic rejected the company's diagnosis.
The whistleblower was completely vindicated in the end. Graham was a bad actor, and Dickson was on board every step of the way.
I don't want to wade to far into it...I have read every filing from that case, across years and years. The company paid a crooked shrink orders of magnitude more than market cost for a psych test to get their preferred diagnosis. Said shrink had to forfeit his license as a result.
A panel of doctors at the Mayo clinic rejected the company's diagnosis.
The whistleblower was completely vindicated in the end. Graham was a bad actor, and Dickson was on board every step of the way.
02-06-2026 | 03:03 AM
#459
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they do if they are on the ER or WB. And if not, so? I fail to understand the problem. If they meet all the requirements of an unrestricted ATP, why is the fact they still have the restriction a problem?
you understand once you meet all the requirements of an unrestricted ATP, removing the restriction is just paperwork right?
you understand once you meet all the requirements of an unrestricted ATP, removing the restriction is just paperwork right?
02-06-2026 | 04:08 AM
#460
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Joined: Dec 2021
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I still remember having him as an instructor. The seat fill joked that he also had a room named after him. Down the hall next to the water fountain. Whooosh.
“Congrats man! That’s awesome! So glad to hear. Good to see people acknowledged.”
Was pretty awkward when he explained it was a joke and he meant the bathroom
Liked him as an instructor though.
“Congrats man! That’s awesome! So glad to hear. Good to see people acknowledged.”
Was pretty awkward when he explained it was a joke and he meant the bathroom
Liked him as an instructor though.
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