Something with a passenger jet....corporate jet....some kinda plane incident.  EVERYDAY.....people.

EVERYDAY...

 ;

Are we flying more???

or are we hiring folks with the wrong stuff???

asking questions lol

You're not making the point you think we are because we simply are flying more.

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/by_the_numbers/media/Air_Traffic_by_the_Numbers_2023.pdf

Because I'll be flying less.....

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/by_the_numbers/media/Air_Traffic_by_the_Numbers_2023.pdf

Why is it so hard to post a link on this site?

can I have

A bit of both for $500?

 Damn near anyone can get a certificate not many choose to be true aviators. Lots of what was pounded into me over 30 years ago was information rarely needed but has on occasion saved my life.

Well stated Geezer.  Same here.

Power drift off the runway onto the taxiway in the grass yesterday....

Easy enough to deduce they hit the wet runway ran out of length and instead of keepin her straight and going off the overrun....try to drift onto the taxiway like a super cool ricer on tokyo drift.....and well you can see how that worked out.

I was on a flight that landed in Durango CO. 737.....they did the exact same thing because the runway had about a foot of snow....I felt the plane drift after landing and slowing that took forever....looked out the window as I was seated near the main wing and could see the perimeter fence.......the wing was more than half way over the top of the fence.  I was like what the f.....so I guess that just happened.   YES it happens.

THey slid that baby sideways right at the end of the runway.  Some times it works....some times you make the news.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Woms1sBqUdo

yep, it's hard to keep up.

with all the fk ups.....

You see, the greatest generation didn't happen by accident.

All these awesome Sully Sullenbergers didn't just come out of no where.  THey were honed, shaped, culled from the masses. 

War.

War was the great filter.

World war 2, the korean, vietnam....storms in the desert.  They are all good for one thing.  Culling the weak and letting the strong survive. 

See, this is where all the great pilots of yesterday came from...the crucible that forged great pilots. 

Today we have a plethora of average pilots who are just that, average.  No challenge beset in front of them to weed out the chaff.  Hence the increase in dumb pilot stuff you see on the daily.

We need a good war to pit the mediocracy against mediocracy so that the best of the best can once again emerge.

Then we'll have great pilots back in the cockpits again.....and less runway incursions and excursions, midairs, and what not.

probably less than one percent of the greatest generation were pilots bro and a fraction of that flew after the war but have a good time

we need a good war so the bad pilots get killed and the good ones don't and then less planes going off the runway 

Is,

If a woman goes get a sex change.....will that make her a better pilot??

it was for the best that all those pilots got killed but oops this is embarrassing

In the war on terror not even 20% of heli crashes were from enemy fire, it was all IIMC and CFIT. With all of that time to hone the skill and they still killed themselves most of the time. I can only imagine how badly most of the high school drop outs they were slapping into cockpits actually flew during Nam to manage to ball up 5,600 helicopters.

interesting how maga will suddenly attack dead vets when backed into a corner. not surprising though

are dragging through the mud didn't have the luxury of turning down flights

Bringing facts into a trolls workplace.  

inexperience.

we weren't all born with a lot of helicopter time but this job ain't that hard. anybody with half a brain and a thousand hours can do any job in helicopter aviation with a little training

all pays the same

But not probable, for sure.