Pilots on Instagram
 

Watch out guys, this DB reporter is calling people out BY NAME and company for their photos posted to IG.

The pilots of Instagram: beautiful views from the cockpit, violating rules of the air ? Quartz

Make your accounts private. (Or stop taking pics in the flight deck...whichever)

I swear to god of a picture of me was on there, I'd sue him.

Look at those DB's taking selfies.

And you would lose.

I always think these pics are a dumb move too every time I see them. Besides vanity, what is the point of posting any of these flight deck pics? I even saw a guy post a video on FB of a mom carrying a crying kid off one of his regional flights with the caption "Demon Child." I thought, "What an idiot!" You just posted a video making fun of one of Delta's paying passengers and her family on a public site revealing your own identity at the same time.

Think before you post.

Be smart out there guys, this isnt High School and Facebook 2007 before mom got into it. Take your pics but dont be "that guy". Having a job is better than wooing some cutie follower from Denver youve never met.

There actually is no FAR preventing you from having a camera in the cockpit. Depends on the company you work for most of the time. This guy is a liberal DB! Looking at his other articles he is not a journalist he is just trying to make a stink and risking otherb people's careers for a BS story. He is going to **** off a lot of pilots and make it really hard for himself to fly. He is the definition of a TROLL!!

You can't fix stupid.

The author just said, "thanks or the clicks"

Good, db's that take selfies on the flight deck should be called out for being gigantic tools, I have a few Facebook friends that do it regularly, oh you're an airline pilot? Cool story bro everyone knows and nobody cares cause your friends are all pilots too.

Pilots of Intstagram
 

They're risking their own careers... but the writer is still a jack@ss

All this ig stuff reminds of the character on "mad tv" dressed as a kid always saying "look what I can do!" They'll learn


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Selfie dude gets on this site.

That's true of *cameras*, but 121.542(d) says the following:

An InFO dated 20 May 2014 says:

Of course one's FOM/GOM guidance is controlling, but it would certainly seem the intent is to include tablets & smartphones (which do obviously include camera functions) under the prohibition.

Regardless, the author's hard hitting investigative reporting is little more than attention-grabbing clickbait...and his "naming names" and dropping dimes to airlines and the FAA is beyond the pale.

Pilots need to be smart about everything work-related they put on social media...

I regularly see check-ins from the penalty box. Careful folks!

Lets be real, names were dropped, but whats everyone's opinion on what will happen to these poor souls? I feel a slap on wrist and maybe a safety seminar on technology in flight deck is in store.

Guys, look on the bright side. Every one of these guys in this article is a potential seniority number you may get to move up.

Hopefully, it'll result in (at most) a non-disciplinary chat with a Chief Pilot and a memo reminding the pilot group of company GOM/FOM guidance, corporate social media policy, and the importance of discretion.

Amazed they didn't mention the worst offender of all time.

ADVENTURES OF CAP?N AUX

Adventures of Cap'n Aux

With the 1500 rule and the increasing cost of training I think these photos provided good motivation for the future pilots of the community.

Shame how one low life reporter can ruin it.

And there are also dozens of paying passengers sitting behind these pilots, at the very moment these pictures are taken, who are relying them to safely and professionally transport them.

The sterile stuff is way stupid. However good luck trying to prove how the pictures outside of sterile were taken. As long as you don't use a banned PED to take the picture you're OK. Never post anything on FB or any other public site you wouldn't mind the FAA or the company seeing.

Yeah, then pilots should never be allowed to read books, magazines, eat, drink. Hell just make it a sterile cockpit 100% of the time.

How many crashes or incidents have resulted from taking in flight photos? That's what I thought. You and David Yankoffsky should hang out.

My cockpit was taking pictures during a flight once. I got mad because he was the one monitoring the flight. I ended up taking the controls back.

[QUOTE=jmcke;1781349]My cockpit was taking pictures during a flight once. I got mad because he was the one monitoring the flight. I ended up taking the controls back.[/QU
Cockpit is suppose to be co-pilot sorry:confused:

Pilots of Intstagram
 

The selfie pics are a whole other level, who ever knows this cat and where ever he works should print copies and hang it around the crew room , including the article .

Hopeless

Those of you who think taking a picture above 10 is "being distracted"are no better than this guy. I see no problem with cameras or even a PED being used as a camera in airplane mode. We are only trying to share our love of our job with others who may appreciate it. Even a Gopro turned on at the start of a flight and not touched until the end is fine by me. If you screw up or Crash you just helped the FAA and NTSB in their investigation.

Here is the db's own mile high selfie. https://origincache-frc.fbcdn.net/19...92188459_n.jpg

You can comment bomb him on his article link here.
https://m.facebook.com/yanofsky

While I am not condoning this act, his facebook profile is being posted all over pilot communities on facebook. Lets just say his profile privacy settings should have been a little tighter, he posted the link to the article on his page, over 300 comments from total strangers just ripping him a new one

Ah beat me to it!

You have a point but if your the pilot monitoring and its your leg than they should have no excuse on pulling out a camera and taking pictures. They should be more focused on flying.

The reason I'm so mad about this is because he had targeted personal Friends of mine who only took scenic type of picturez only sharing there experiences.

Is this in the majors forum as well? Many of the pics are busses if I'm not mistaken.

I do not think its in the major forum yet. If someone can put it in there that would be nice. I know there are a couple of JetBlue guys in there.

Flying and Instagramming
 

As a lot of you know, an article was published today that talked about of many things, cameras in the cockpit and potential dangers it may impose. What also was talked was specific names of individuals and private photos they had taken. Thoughts?

The pilots of Instagram: beautiful views from the cockpit, violating rules of the air ? Quartz

i posted a topic in the major, i would like to see what some of the older guys will sat

I hope all of you realize that he'll be using this thread to write a follow up article

Use this PDF I made so you don't give him any more hits.

If you want to email him directly, his email is:[email protected]

Eveybody needs to email his employer.

Title will be "Are airline pilots too arrogant to fly airplanes?"

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