Life Guard Accident in Hawaii 12/16/2022

[knot4u]

None.


But to be fair, I took the quickest route possible to the airlines at the time: 3 checkrides only. Private, Instrument, and then initial Commercial in a ME. Then a CRJ course in Florida which led to an airline interview.

I'm not impressed. I remember a restaurant that used to serve the best Beef Stroganoff in Alhambra.

 

[Pilot Fighter]

Well you have to be ready for it. The iPad has to be mounted and can’t be moved, you have to have the internal or external AHRS aligned, the GPS set up, plugged into power, etc etc.

When your PFD fails and you have 9 checkride failures and you can’t even be bothered to look at the standby on the other side of the cockpit while hand flying I don’t this guy had the mental bandwidth to set up a iPad for survival.

FWIW, pretty common in big jet 135, but that’s because we’re nerds and had a big budget.

This operator couldn’t be bothered to MEL and fix the MFD which was required for single pilot ops but they had a video camera in the cockpit.

Things that make you go “huh”

Yeah, if he doesn’t give an eff about his primary instruments, why would I expect him to care about optional tertiary instruments?

 

[derg]

That’s my point. They didn’t care about losing an entire crew as long as it was the “pilots fault”

Apparently so. :/

 

[FlyingAccountant]

And the handwritten note from the pilot's wife telling him not to be forced into IMC by the "people in the back."

That's pretty curious. Did this guy know he was deficient and expressed that to his wife and that's why she wrote the note? What was the purpose of the note to begin with? Was the wife a pilot too?