I fully agree with you. These guys should be fired. When you are on final you should be focused on the landing, not spinning the damn camera to look like you rolled the bird.

 

The guy in the video wasn't playing music while he was working. That comparison doesn't make sense. A better comparison would be two surgeons working together with one holding a video camera instead of paying attention to the job at hand. The reason there are two of us up there is to crosscheck and verify, which clearly wasn't happening in the video. I agree that we can relax and have a good time while flying, but the job is what it is and having fun comes secondary. As for surgeons, they crack lots of jokes on TV, but in real life, they stay focused on what they're doing.

 

Id say that you need to have a balance between having fun and being serious. If you cant have fun in this industry. Then you really dont love flying. However, The last thing you want to do is show management how much fun you are having protecting 50 people on a 25 million dollar jet....especially showing faces/tail numbers.

 

Do you actually know any doctors, and have you ever sat in on a surgery???

 

Very true....

 

My wife is a doctor who does surgery.

 

Mom is a doctor, Dad is a doctor, brother is a doctor, brother's wife is a doctor, sister is going to be a doctor, so, you can say I've herd some stories and guess what? I broke the mold. Please don't tell me about doctors and their lifestyles. First off everyone single one is a RELAXED professional, and yes, gasp! some of them do dumb stuff too. Want a story about doctor "professionalism"? How about the doctor who left a scalpel in the wound after he was done? Not professional enough? The best part is the whole time he had himself video taped!!!!! Why you may ask? This wasn’t the first time it happened. Let's not play the card that mighty pilots don't do dumb things too. (By the way, said doctor was disbarred from practicing medicine after that, and the patient was fine, never knew it happened.) I'll spot everyone on one thing, yes the tail number and faces were dumb, sure, but everyone still needs to relax and hopefully nothing will happen to this guy.

 

Sorry folks but they're right. In cruise is one thing, but taping the landing and filming F16s off to the side before the nosewheel is down is very unprofessional. Rumor is that we just had an Eagle FO canned for a youtube video (took all of about a week I think), so don't be surprised if this guy shows up with him on the unemployment line soon. You can't just do whatever you want in an airliner.

 

Hey guys I didn't mean to open up a can of worms here, just thought it was a cool video. Were there some distateful things in it? Yes. I think it was dumb to show their faces. As far as spinning the camera on final, I'm not sure some of you have valid arguments. How many videos are out there that were taken from the right seat of an airliner while it was on short final. Several, many of them have had links posted here in the forums. I think the only reason you think it was distasteful was because the pilot spun the camera, give me a break. Overall it was a well made film.

 

Terrible Quality, horrible song, dorky looking F/O..........maybe I should a make one of these things..........