I don't care who gets elected, I'm moving to France.
I'll stick to Canada. They just speak French without the attitude.
I don't care who gets elected, I'm moving to France.
The best thing to do is contact Congressman Jim Oberstar, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastucture Committe and Congressman John Mica, the Ranking minority member, and express your thoughts on this story and the Colgan pilot story. I sent e-mails to both today with links to both news stories. I think both congressman are aviation friendly. They need to hear from pilots about these issues.
http://transportation.house.gov/about.aspx
http://www.oberstar.org/contact/
http://www.house.gov/mica/messageform.shtml
I don't care who gets elected, I'm moving to France.
Thank goodness there aren't that many 72's around or the TSA would "discover" that it doesn't take a key to drop the aft airstairs....
I can't believe that the FAA freaking ASLEEP and giving the TSA free reign to destroy airplanes fighting "straw men" at the airport? They're going to get innocent people killed one of these days by tampering with aircraft.
What's a brother got to do for some media attention on this?!
So it's routine procedure to damage the plane to make sure they're "secure"?
Well if it can't fly....
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</p>Thank goodness there aren't that many 72's around or the TSA would "discover" that it doesn't take a key to drop the aft airstairs....</p>
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<p>I can't believe that the FAA freaking <u><b>ASLEEP</b></u> and giving the TSA free reign to destroy airplanes fighting "straw men" at the airport? <u>They're going to get innocent people killed one of these days by tampering with aircraft.</u></p>
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<p>What's a brother got to do for some media attention on this?!
Here's a question: does anyone know of any crashes/ near-misses due to a TAT probe breaking for any reason? I would imagine that letters to congress people regarding what actually happens when a TAT probe breaks would put a little more "oomph" into the argument for firing the TSA/TSI people and/or fining them.
This is not conclusive by any means but the Spanair MD-80 that ran off the runway was previously delayed 1 hour for an inoperate TAT sensor.Here's a question: does anyone know of any crashes/ near-misses due to a TAT probe breaking for any reason? I would imagine that letters to congress people regarding what actually happens when a TAT probe breaks would put a little more "oomph" into the argument for firing the TSA/TSI people and/or fining them.
They do not have the authority to climb aircraft and try to see if it can be broken into.
Which is it going to be?
Someone has to be held accountable, and honestly - the whole agency is a joke. A joke, that is costing us as taxpayers much more than they are ever going to provide. A joke, that is costing us as airline employees (more importantly - pilots) with increased liability if one of these jokers ends up deciding to check an airplane and break something without fessing up to it. I wouldn't put it past a couple of the high school kids who lack the maturity to respect people's items going through security to respect a companies property on an isolated airport ramp, clearly they failed to respect American Eagle's property.
Hate to say it, but it's my ass as an FO, along with the PIC's, if something is dinged on the airplane and no one knows why / how it got there.