A pilot has been indicted for allegedly threatening to shoot the captain if the flight was diverted
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Screaming_Emu
Joe Conventional
Do you tip poorly? Anchorage is a bleak poo hole of everything, especially door dash deliveries, but I rarely have issues.
knot4u
Repeat Offender
So what are we talking about?
CFI A&P
Exploring the world one toilet at a time.
Did you plan on connecting in TPA, or was there a diversion? Was this Jackpot Airlines with Captain Dave? LAX-TPA-MYNN doesn't seem like a good option.
scooter2525
Very well Member
Yeah. See that is the problem. The fact that you even think about it. “Oh I took a class, PROFESSIONAL COURTESY!”
poser765
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Man, it’s not even gamepad vs keyboard/mouse for me. I just can’t react fast enough nor do I have the time to get good enough to not be ROFLstomped immediately.
JordanD
Here so I don’t get fined
No, usually pretty well, especially if the weather sucks, unless they’re expecting a 50% tip or something
trafficinsight
Well-Known Member
As usual I have no idea what you're talking about.
Don’t get me wrong, there are FFDOs who are fine….likely a very large number of them. But those, as have been mentioned, are the low key ones who will make mention of their status when it’s required, and that’s it. Other than that, you wouldn’t know them from Adam, and they don’t advertise anything, or make cockpit (or even cabin) combat action plans (have heard that before), or anything else that is highlighting what is supposed to be a status that should otherwise be unknown to anyone else.
Unfortunately, these aren’t the ones who get attention…..it’s the ones who highlight themselves in the negative ways, who do.
BEEF SUPREME
Well-Known Member
I was worried about getting flagged by FFDOs before the training and now I am not. So when people ask me about the training I try and not divulge anything SSI but do mention "I'll never flag anyone because it made me uncomfortable before I went to training. Your safety is paramount. Someone has to fly the aircraft." I'm shocked to hear someone claim that an FFDO said they would blast anyone out of the way including the person they were working with. They should absolutely not be in the program.
I do everything I can to not let anyone know I am an FFDO unless it is required. I've never asked for a discount and I wouldn't hand my badge to an LEO if they pulled me over. I know there is a discount program available but I don't even know how to sign up. That isn't why I joined the program.
///AMG
Well-Known Member
Haha this reminds me of one of my first ever mass briefs for a combat sortie. I would use an asterisks when I say combat, because we operated in a complete sanctuary against an enemy combatant force that had no effective way to shoot us down, this being Afghanistan, at the time. Anyway, we had a Royal Marine former-Harrier pilot as an exchange staff officer in our airwing. Back to the brief, it is early AM, and there are maybe 4-6 flights (2 airplanes/pilots each), plus a half dozen intel people, and then some token leadership, maybe the air wing commander himself, can't remember. Whoever the briefer was is intending to cover the Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) portion of the standardized brief pretty quickly. This RAF Squadron Leader (or whatever their O-5 equivalent rank is) stands up, and proceeds to tell us his deepest fantasy about what he will do. It involved flying with something like 10k GBP cash, using that to immediately barter for an AK-47 and a shovel, and then he would dig a fox hole, put his helmet on the handle end of the shovel, and raise it up out of the foxhole trying to draw attention. Then, ALL OF A SUDDEN, he'd pop up, and go full Rambo on the unsuspecting enemy. And there was something about his communications plan, which, without giving away any details of what one might actually do in such a scenario, sounded about as bat**** crazy as the rest of his plan. He was actually a great dude, but something about CSAR scrambled his brain a bit
This RAF Squadron Leader (or whatever their O-5 equivalent rank is) stands up, and proceeds to tell us his deepest fantasy about what he will do. It involved flying with something like 10k GBP cash, using that to immediately barter for an AK-47 and a shovel, and then he would dig a fox hole, put his helmet on the handle end of the shovel, and raise it up out of the foxhole trying to draw attention. Then, ALL OF A SUDDEN, he'd pop up, and go full Rambo on the unsuspecting enemy. And there was something about his communications plan, which, without giving away any details of what one might actually do in such a scenario, sounded about as bat**** crazy as the rest of his plan. He was actually a great dude, but something about CSAR scrambled his brain a bit
Wing Commander.
What a nutty one.
scooter2525
Very well Member
too late.
Posting on JC is required?
BEEF SUPREME
Well-Known Member
Not at all. I think it’s a fantastic program and it’s worth standing up for. My bad for trying to follow instructions and setting a positive example I guess.
Still 21 million missions since 2003 and very few issues.
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Murdoughnut
Well sized member
But also 21-million missions without a success. And since no passenger ever assumes a pilot can be armed, there's not really much of a deterrence benefit.
CFI A&P
Exploring the world one toilet at a time.
The way I read this is he only mentions it when necessary at work, whereas reading this thread there are plenty of people that make it a major part of their identity. Rambo first, pilot second.
scooter2525
Very well Member
… right. But this isn’t work. It’s a “need to know” and JC (or any boards) isn’t that.
His posting is a way to say “look at ME! I’m not one of THOSE guys.”
BEEF SUPREME
Well-Known Member
It’s one way to look at it, I guess.
Carry on JC…
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But then dinner is $40
Screaming_Emu
Joe Conventional
Same with crappy hotel restaurants