SlumTodd_Millionaire
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Something tells me that a third world country just maybe doesn't honor seniority like we do.
Yeti Airlines crash ATR 72
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Something tells me that a third world country just maybe doesn't honor seniority like we do.
Pilot Fighter
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Years ago, a number of small international carriers required degrees for their captains, creating a barrier to upgrades as we know them. A bit of a caste system.
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Hell, we did that here for many years. Couldn't even sling gear without a degree at any major airline for a long time.
Pilot Fighter
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Yeah, but did any US carriers have a higher educational standard for captains?
My first flight instructor's father was a flight school owner who died in a plane crash. She then went on to get her licenses and become a CFI to honor her dad. Then she was in an airplane crash about a decade later and died.
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No, but I think we can all agree that we should.
Pilot Fighter
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So folks can enjoy a life sentence as an FO?
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Demanding a higher educational standard for a position with more responsibility, and a position in which it is assumed you have more knowledge and experience, isn’t a crazy notion…
Pilot Fighter
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You’re right, English MA’s for captains, English BA’s for FO’s.
Would probably make for better banter.
Hiboglossi
The Most Depressing Person
I suppose it's possible they don't allow women to upgrade either.
Even nowadays, isn't it pretty rare to get hired at a major without a degree?
mightynimbus
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some of the dumbest people I know are highly educated.
SlumTodd_Millionaire
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Donald Trump has entered the chat.
msmspilot
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You might not joke about that if you’d ever had to read FOQA/ASAP/ops reports pilots write.
schloopy
Well-Known Member
I flew on the reverse of this route with Yeti back in 2017. It was honestly a really strange feeling, definitely aware of the fact that for the next hour my life was significantly more at risk than it otherwise is, but the aviation nerd in me more so just over the moon excited to get to do something like that.
Flight was of course uneventful, but I remember being really impressed with the FAs. Professional, seemingly well-trained, and more attentive than I had ever seen. Multiple rounds of snacks and drinks (this is an hour-long domestic ATR flight) as well as a bowl of cotton to pick pieces off of and use as air plugs, I thought that was pretty neat. Blew my FlyDubai DXB-KTM flight out of the water.
Just sad all around, really incredible people living in that part of the world.
Flight was of course uneventful, but I remember being really impressed with the FAs. Professional, seemingly well-trained, and more attentive than I had ever seen. Multiple rounds of snacks and drinks (this is an hour-long domestic ATR flight) as well as a bowl of cotton to pick pieces off of and use as air plugs, I thought that was pretty neat. Blew my FlyDubai DXB-KTM flight out of the water.
Just sad all around, really incredible people living in that part of the world.
Hiboglossi
The Most Depressing Person
Like him or not, Trump is way smarter than most people give him credit for, though the fact that he lost reelection during a Pandemic that most incumbents benefited from electorally shows his intelligence has its limits. But I think Jared Kushner is an excellent example of someone with an ivy league education but limited intelligence.
Maximilian_Jenius
Super User
You know that Donald's father paid those institutions off right, to get his degrees...
Also, if he was so smart, why'd he threatened the schools with legal action, if they released his grades?
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Clever yes. Whitty maybe.
And every business that Donald has spearheaded has failed. The only surviving entity is the one he has inherited.
SlumTodd_Millionaire
Most Hated Member
Jared has at least 30 IQ points on Trump. You’re delusional.
Hiboglossi
The Most Depressing Person
You may be right- I could be mistaking Trumps political instincts, which I think were better than those of most Republican Presidential candidates in 2016, for overall intelligence.
He's smart, just not smart enough to get into an ivy league university without being a legacy admit- but few people are that smart.
People always think politicians they don't like are stupid but they're usually wrong.
NovemberEcho
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Please don’t turn this into a Trump thread
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