Napping pilots cause concern
 

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/s...lines-13215392

Discuss.

For me it’s not the napping that is most concerning.

Required by the FAR’s, what is so concerning?

Doesn't the 757 business rest seat have a curtain? Maybe I'm thinking of the 767.

5 stripes? He must be extra super important!

Anyone take a look at that photo of his uniform, the ole 5 striper epaulettes lol

I was wondering about the 5th stripe. Was this a thing of yesteryear? Like the guys who still wear their UAL or CAL wings on their coat?

Probably Russian hacking:D. Fifth stripe:rolleyes:?

No it does not.

Most of the time there will be a passenger sitting in the seat next to him. It’s a bad set up. The article was written to make a mountain out of a mole hill but it was only a matter of time until this caused some bad publicity.

Looks like I have to be on the hunt for some 6 stripe epaulets.

Corrected headline:

“Brit Tabloid Admits Knowing Nothing of Transatlantic Flying; Confesses that ‘Aviation Experts’ Cited were Drunk Pub Patrons.”

I noticed that too. A super senior check airman with a couple of shuttle landings no doubt.

Whats really sad is the aviation expert being so far off the mark. US airlines almost always use a 3 man crew on the North Atlantic although i have done BOS AMS with just 2 crew. As far as being in First Class goes I did it all the time both Atlantic and Pacific if a seat was available and I felt like a movie.

Time for a highly compensated and recently hired chief communications officer to earn HIS stripes.

Looks like your avatar is appropriate unless you aren't a pilot at all. Definitely a troll though.

Perfect.

Is this a serious question

Yes, why wouldn’t it be?

Go away...

You first!

Well that's the dumbest question of the week

Yes. Yes it is, try it and let us all know how it goes.

It really isn’t.

I’ll go on YouTube Live when I do!

Of course you're allowed to drink in uniform. Its still a free country. At the moment anyway.

No regulations that I am aware of, or would ever willingly comply with, require you to take off your hat, blazer, tie, wings, etc. before you open the fridge at home and grab a cold one. Forcristsake. Dumbest question ever.

It really is! :rolleyes:

A few fishy things about this article. 5 stripes. My guess is the shirt and a few other things were photo shopped, and they screwed it up.

Normal SOP ops...pax were shocked? Just goes to prove, we are under scrutiny all the time, even sleeping. Drive by picture? Cheap shot. I'm guessing the pax weren't regulars in first. So, media stretching the truth a bit? Taking a few liberties? Surprising. Moral of the story, be careful what you do in public, we are being watched at all times. Even if its normal SOP ops.

UAL wants to short change us on crew rest facilities, then they have to deal with the fallout. Geez, at least give us a curtain.

I have an acquaintance (retired now) who had 5-stripe epaulets made and wore near the end of his career. He referred to himself as "Commodore". It was just a joke.

Not a dumb question unless he had stipulated "commercial pilot", instead of "pilot". I know plenty of pilots that drink in uniform.

When i worked in the EU 15 years ago it was totally fine to have your crew meal at the end of duty in full uniform in the airport restaurant and it would include wine/beer. It is a more mature approach to assume someone drinking must be done working than to assume if you aren't allowed to drink in uniform you will never have a drunk pilot.

You can make a phony photo too! :D

https://www.pilotshop.com/catalog/pspages/egolets.php

Can u say "click bait". Sadly I admit I'm just as guilty, but at least I closed the page as soon as it asked me to answer a question to read the article.

https://www.amazon.com/Egolets-Stripe-Novelty-Pilot-Epaulets/dp/B00V1QFOT4

I believe I’m correct that the LUAL used to require a curtain around the crew rest seat, before bunks?

Now we know why.

We live in a world of instant news, even the non-news kind.

Next: a time lapse video of a captain on a break NOT sleeping at all, followed by a cry of UAL being unsafe because the the pilot wasn’t rested for the landing.

Exactly. It this were a Delta flight, the headline would have been "HERO PILOT TAKES PRECAUTIONARY HEROIC NAP BEFORE LANDING".

And if it were a CNN article, there'd be a mention of and 5 links to the Dr. Dao story.

http://a66.tinypic.com/vglpq1.jpg

Waiting for someone to come through with one stripe. See if anyone will notice or comment.

But why do they only go to 5? Why not 6? :confused:

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/PositiveEm...restricted.gif

Why not 11

So... they're upset about a third pilot sleeping in the cabin.
So, I'm sure they wouldn't be thrilled about one pilot on a 2-man crew napping in the cockpit.

Yet, somehow, single-pilot airliners are going to be a-ok with the public. Uh huh... right.

Some very real parallels between that article, the general public, the press and the airline industry and this Monte Python scene....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g