Being an airhead at a municipal airfield is one thing, but this guy likes to use busy airports with larger commercial planes. I’d say regardless of his age, his celebrity is shielding him. If he ends up casusing mass casualties, the FAA folks who slapped his wrist will wish they’d never been born. Flying is a privilege and not a right. Mr. Ford is either incapable or he doesn’t take safety seriously- not consistently, at least. This isn’t a cop letting a celebrity get a ride home. Mr. Ford has established a pattern that could end up much worse than any DUI accident.

(Written on 2020年 09月 25日)(Permalink)

Holding them accountable or twisting the truth to make someone seem responsible when they are not? I don't see your logic.

(Written on 2020年 08月 28日)(Permalink)

Lawyers are the greatest parasites on our society. They think personal responsibility and reality are negotiable.

(Written on 2020年 08月 28日)(Permalink)

There you go politicizing. You can say Democrat this and Democrat that (I'm not one personally), but it isn't the Democrats who are mostly spreading conspiracy theories and misinformation. It's not the Democrats who are maligning mask wearing and turning it into a political litmus test. It's people like you. Like YOU. Not the liberals or the Democrats- people like YOU. Why don't you pull your head where the sun shines and discover what being a good citizen is? No, you'd rather wrap yourself in your "Don't Tread on me" flag and go cough in peoples paces in stores to show people nobody can tell you what to do. Grow up a little.

(Written on 2020年 07月 31日)(Permalink)

This is all about risk reduction. Anything short of Bioseafety Level 4 hazard suits is less than foolproof against COVID-19. For political reasons and from prescribing to quack conspiracy theories, there's been a lot of spreading of doubt, misinformation, and disinformation about masks. There's no doubt that they help slow the spread of COVID-19. Whether they help a lot or a little shouldn't matter as the inconvenience and expense are small. Only the completely selfish political fanatics and paranoiacs focus exclusively on the shortcomings of the masks and other precautions being taken.

(Written on 2020年 07月 31日)(Permalink)

He wasn't giving advice. Read more and react less. And you go ahead and enjoy your freedom to infect people. What heroic ideals you have.

(Written on 2020年 07月 31日)(Permalink)

Or don't put it in- exactly. I'd like to hear how many pilots would say that the lack of this anti-stall feature would have caused them to crash at any point in their careers. It might seem that the obsession with safety could reach a limit even with passenger air travel. Going back to the car analogy, one thing strikes me about the newer cars besides the abundance of features I don't need: there's a lot more things in them that can break or fail. How much feature management can be piled on a pilot- before the pilot fails?

(Written on 2019年 05月 31日)(Permalink)

What if the first time your car ever drifts to the right (and the system also fails), it's about to hit a bicyclist on the side of the road? You're not used to correcting the steering on your automated car. You frantically jerk the wheel to the left at the last nanosecond and drive into an oncoming truck. If you survived, would you then disable the automated steering correction?

(Written on 2019年 05月 31日)(Permalink)

Has anybody considered simply disabling this anti-stall system- permanently? I'm no pilot, but it seems like it wouldn't hurt for pilots to "regress" back a bit to piloting instead of increasingly becoming IT managers. When does automation go too far? It's when "safety" kills. Computers offer speed and convenience, but you shouldn't be compelled to use them for everything. They lack one essential characteristic: nuanced judgement based on experience. That characteristic is exactly what automated systems can strangulate when they fail. The "emergency backup" should be the pilot and not the computer.

(Written on 2019年 05月 31日)(Permalink)

It's the big bad corporation victimizing the poor and helpless (maybe not so poor flying First Class). Or that's the knee-jerk conclusion some people are making ("sue the hell out of tham!"). It's unfortunate that this kid has Down's Syndrome, and maybe the airline personnel did treat these people less than sensitively. Or, maybe these people are overly sensitive due to the demands their son's care places on them, and not realistic about the effect their son's behaviour can have in an extremely security-conscious situation. It's not fair to villify the airline. They serve all their passengers, not just those in very special situations.

(Written on 2012年 09月 07日)(Permalink)