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Originally Posted by bike21 
As pilot602 pointed out, you are not on the line flying everyday. I am not discounting your years of experience in this industry, and this certainly isn't an attack. But c'mon, we are pushed hard enough some days as it is. As you mentioned in your last post, pilots that commute are already tired sometimes starting on day 1. I just love getting in planes with guys who have already been up since 3am for the commute and didn't get to bed until late b/c of kids, family, packing, etc.
Until you are responsible for the lives of everybody in the back, day in - day out then I would suggest you rethink your position. Do you really want your family on plane with a crew that has had min rest for 3 days in a row flying a 15 hour duty day? I know this an extreme example, but it happens. All too often.
And don't get me wrong, I am for research and new ideas. But this one seems like just another way to make us a generic commodity. |
Looking at my previous posting, which had to do with Jetblue wanting to have their crews do the JFK-LAX-JFK turn, my first comment was allow them do it, by increasing the max flight time, but, decrease the crew duty time.
If I really wanted my family to feel safe, I would feel more comfortable knowing that the pilots were actually living at the same place that they were based out of.
Probably the one thing the scared the hell out of me, was a pilot that jumspeated from South Africa, 4 hour nap & then flew a fully loaded 747 to Anchorage, now, that scared the hell out of me.
So as to what goes on in the cockpit, I don't want to know, sometimes, ignorance is bliss.
