https://www.youtube.com/shorts...OiKt6c?feature=share

Pilot announcement

I might.

But I sure would hate yo be served at McD by that stupid Bimbo you had!

I’ve flown quite a bit and I gotta say… never knew the first thing about anyone flying the plane. I’ll wager that’s the experience of 98% of the entire world.

Of course, the OP video is not literally about Trump piloting a passenger plane.

And it's not about 98% of us not knowing the first thing about the pilot, even though that's not true. We know or trust that they are competent and qualified for the job.

If we knew as a fact that a pilot said he knew more about anything than anyone, especially more than the engineers and maintenance of the plane, I for one wouldn't get on the plane with that pilot. It not just that what he said is impossible but that he said it.

Yet the majority, barely, of Americans would put such an egotistical person, for real, piloting the nation.

BTW, for those herein who got the joke and irony in the OP, I hope I didn't insult you by explaining its meaning. My explanation was for the dense ones.

You need to be relatively intelligent to get a commercial license/ATPL...so its not a situation which is likely to arise.

Yesterday, I had lunch with an active Southwest captain, two retired Delta captains, one retired ASA captain (Delta Connection and now a corporate pilot) and a retired American pilot. Then me… a lowly 1500 hour USMC fighter pilot and military instructor with another 3000 hours in tail-draggers like Super Cubs and Luscombes (single and multi engine, land and sea, commercial, instrument license).

I usually just listen.

Most of the conversation this week was about safety and how to improve it. They still care.

One is writing (as a consultant) a paper on the conflict between technology (meaning coupled approaches/landings) and the hands-on awareness and white-knuckled demands of hand-flying to touchdown.

Most modern commercial passenger aircraft were designed to save user costs on personnel expenses, i.e., training, and as a result, you get pilots who push buttons well, but rely too much on fixed procedures and might well shit their britches if the buttons don’t work.

So, give me a Thud pilot with 100 missions North and not button pushers from an ATP mill. That said, at 78 I’m quite aware I’m going to die in the finite future… sooner in an aluminum tube or later with gasping, bed-borne breaths…. I don’t really care.

Statistics show airlines are safer than urban bicycle riding and it’s a long, wet walk to Harare so I’ll continue with airlines and hope that we crash on the return after I get another elephant.

That sounds like it was a very interesting lunch.

I love flying, in the US. Whilst it's interesting here, at low level everything is so congested you are constantly working and cant just enjoy it. My IR was one of the most difficult things Ive done.

Sadly my license has lapsed some years ago, and ive not renewed it.

Hats off to you flying whilst some bugger is shooting at you.