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06-16-2010, 05:22 PM
#22
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Originally Posted by hockeypilot44
Am I the only pilot that would not bring up an ordinary passenger if the captain gets sick? Call me paranoid, but unless it's a jumpseater with an airline I.D. or a flight attendant, I believe it's a security risk. I'm perfectly capable of flying an Airbus by myself.
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06-16-2010, 05:37 PM
#24
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Position: FDX 767 FO
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Originally Posted by USMCFLYR
What do you consider an ordinary passenger?
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They might make a decent copilot in a 767.I have day dreamed this scenario hundreds of times. Wrong place wrong time again. Seems to be my mantra these days.
06-16-2010, 05:41 PM
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Originally Posted by tank6102
lol, its not quite that easy...Busy time O'Hare is a nightmare on the radios...
When I started I went there on my first leg of IOE and I think part of me may still be there
When I started I went there on my first leg of IOE and I think part of me may still be there
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06-16-2010, 05:56 PM
#27
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Originally Posted by hockeypilot44
How much help can they really be? An airline pilot can talk on the radio and help out a little. A passenger with a private pilots' license can't even do that. I would just as rather do it myself than try to explain something to someone who is awestruck. Security is my biggest issue. Who is to say the pilot was not poisoned?
06-16-2010, 06:07 PM
#28
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Freaking airline pilots. "Oh, it's so hard. There's no way any mere mortal could talk on the radio or anything." Please. I know a 17 year old girl who has probably spent 1000 hrs in the right seat of her dads Citation. I'd be willing to bet she's AT LEAST as capable as that 300 hour wonder sitting in the right seat of that CRJ.
06-16-2010, 07:00 PM
#29
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Position: 737, Gulfstream G-IV, Gulfstream G200, King Air 350,
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Originally Posted by Ziggy
I would imagine carrying the load of having to supervise someone not trained, or recently experienced would be a lot greater than just doing it solo.
P.S. Although I agree in the notion that if you need help ask for it. If one of my pilots has done this, HE WOULD BE FIRED.
P.S. Although I agree in the notion that if you need help ask for it. If one of my pilots has done this, HE WOULD BE FIRED.
I am staggered by the elitist tone of some of these replies. Lest you forget that the "ordinary" passengers may be your best resource in an emergency. Some of us are high time military and civilian pilots with thousands of hours, ATP's, turbojet type ratings, and an awful lot of experience operating in and out of Chicago, NY, Etc. Much to our chagrin, we have to fly on the airlines (sorry, I digress), to move around for our jobs, which fly from the same airports as you. As for firing the Captain, how about firing you? Makes about as much sense as your comment.
06-16-2010, 08:14 PM
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Originally Posted by upndsky
The database only has pilots with active medicals. If she hasn't had a medical in a while (ie, she's not actively flying on the side) she wouldn't show up.
Doesn't mean she doesn't have a pilot's license.
Doesn't mean she doesn't have a pilot's license.
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