Senator Proposes A Bill To Ban 'Gadgets' In The Cockpit

WacoFan said:
You know I have much love for you...so don't take this the wrong way.

But...what you can do is MAN UP and quit flying that pansy jet! Get a job flying a Beech 18 or DC-3 in all weather with only the most basic flight instruments and no real navigational help except a Rand McNally road atlas and a watch with a second hand. No comm radios either - all traffic done with light signals or perhaps flag-men at the end of the runway.

That is just my utopian view of the world though.
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Yeah...that's fine. Only if it has leaky windows, so I get a lap full of water every time I turn.
 
Ahhh, there's nothing like good old knee jerk legislation to calm voter perception and make the world a "safer" place.



Doug Taylor said:
Well, if we're all about safety, I hope the bill has a part about banning cellphones and PDAs in cars. Not just using then while driving, actually banning all cellphones and PDAs in the passenger compartment of the automobile.
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I second, or third that thought!
 
This is so stupid and unecessary. If the pilots had just manned up and admitted they fell asleep, they wouldn't ruin it for so many other people. Less government is needed, not more. Give them an inch...
 
Mark815 said:
This is so stupid and unecessary. If the pilots had just manned up and admitted they fell asleep, they wouldn't ruin it for so many other people. Less government is needed, not more. Give them an inch...
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and their licenses may not have been revoked. we're all humans and we all get tired.
 
No, we're SUPER HUMAN! Steely-eyed stare at the instrument panel for hours on end.

One moment of inattention with the autopilot on at 39,000 feet and, in the voice of Nell Carter, "OOOOH LOWDY, WE GOIN DIE!"

I think largely the general public is "shocked and dismayed" that their wildest misconceptions that "Those jets just takeoff, fly and land themselves" was rocked and realized that pilots are actually important.

Man, I am on a sarcastic TEAR today! :)
 
Doug Taylor said:
I think largely the general public is "shocked and dismayed" that their wildest misconceptions that "Those jets just takeoff, fly and land themselves" was rocked and realized that pilots are actually important.

Man, I am on a sarcastic TEAR today! :)
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If anything it shows that pilots have so little to do they feel comfortable using laptops in flight.
 
Yay. Another stupid law to "protect us". Next we should ban overshooting destinations. That's what really would've prevented this.
 
Mark815 said:
This is so stupid and unecessary. If the pilots had just manned up and admitted they fell asleep, they wouldn't ruin it for so many other people. Less government is needed, not more. Give them an inch...
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Then the gov would write a law require pilot to carry an alarm clock instead.
 
Doug Taylor said:
I think largely the general public is "shocked and dismayed" that their wildest misconceptions that "Those jets just takeoff, fly and land themselves" was rocked and realized that pilots are actually important.
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It just shocked them. Because if you start to believe that the people flying the planes are actually important, then you start to realize, hey, maybe I need to pay something for them.

Nah. This is a country where people believed that it was a good idea to buy Pets.com stock because it had a cool mascot. It's a country where significant numbers of people still believe that Saddam Hussein was behind September 11, even though George Bush himself said that Saddam had "nothing" to do with it. It's a country where people think that it's a good idea to use a mortgage to "buy" a house where the monthly payment doesn't even pay all of the interest due.

Pay people who literally have your lives in their hands? Why would anyone want to do that if it means they have to pay $10 more each way for their once a year trip to see Aunt Bessie? That $20 is two whole visits to Golden Coral, where they can stuff their butts with even more junk food and then bitch about how they can't lose weight!
 
Holocene said:
Yay. Another stupid law to "protect us". Next we should ban overshooting destinations. That's what really would've prevented this.
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Stupid laws are enacted because of stupid people, just remember this law came out because of stupidity of those two pilots.:insane:
 
tonyw said:
Pay people who literally have your lives in their hands? Why would anyone want to do that if it means they have to pay $10 more each way for their once a year trip to see Aunt Bessie? That $20 is two whole visits to Golden Coral, where they can stuff their butts with even more junk food and then bitch about how they can't lose weight!
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That's pretty funny...
 
tonyw said:
Pay people who literally have your lives in their hands? Why would anyone want to do that if it means they have to pay $10 more each way for their once a year trip to see Aunt Bessie? That $20 is two whole visits to Golden Coral, where they can stuff their butts with even more junk food and then bitch about how they can't lose weight!
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"It's the corn syrup from Mon SAN toh!"
 
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