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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum
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To: TobagoJack who wrote (149878)8/7/2019 6:53:18 AM
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Aviation people are good at rules but bad at thinking. They love a checklist but not imagination.

So, a couple of years before 911 I was sitting immediately behind the cockpit in a cross USA flight to New York. The cockpit door was left open during the flight.

That seemed quite mad to me as I would have had to simply stand up, take one step forward and I'd have been in the cockpit. I decided to not express my concern to the stewards as I know their intelligence is low and authoritarianism is high so they would consider me threatening and needing arrest. At best they would ignore me.

So I said nothing. 2 years later after Osama et al demonstrated the advantage to hijackers of cockpit doors being open, the checklist was changed to include shutting the door and even locking it.

Unfortunately their checklist did not include checking pilots for Moslem and other problematic psychology so a pilot was locked out while the other crashed the airliner.

Similarly, while in an A380 heading for London from Dubai I realized our pilots were on course for Ukraine. They did not seem to be intending to fly around. Again I decided that the aircrew would ignore my protestations or taze me for threatening air safety. I thought the A380 is so huge that even if a missile did hit an engine we'd survive.

2 weeks later my fear was again realized when the Malaysian airliner was destroyed. The clever missile exploded by the cockpit not an engine. I didn't know they could do that.

Now the checklist includes not flying over war zones with desperate men with zoom missiles.

My excellent Globalstar service included SPOT position location. I loaned Tarken-son's SPOT to brother in law 737 captain and we watched him fly to Australia and park.

Several years later a Malaysian airliner disappeared and remains lost. SPOT devices cost $100. It seemed ridiculous that "SEARCH AND RESCUE" still includes the word search.

The Max8 is another kettle of fish. Stinky kettle of fish.

Mqurice
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