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Old 16th Jun 2017, 18:35
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Airmann
 
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It's the culture in the airline that is bred through fear tactics that starts in management. Look think about it. You get a report that the bird is sitting on the engine pylon. Ok so you increase thrust a bit but it doesn't budge. So there's two thoughts that could go through your head at this moment.

1. Once we set TO thrust that birds going to fly away.
2. Once we set TO thrust that birds going to get sucked into the engine.

So at an airline where the captain's are still in control and where management are not looking to pass all the blame for every event on the pilots and will back them up in front of angry owners the first thought is the natural one.

At an airline where the management are in it for money and have unsympathetic incompasionate overseas that are ready to drop all the blame on the pilots to save their ass at any given moment then pilots learn to always think of the worst possible situation. Always. They become experts at it. To the point that they turn into nervous wrecks. And so a bird on the nacelle becomes an ingested bird. Becomes a rejected TO. Becomes a busted engine. Becomes an enquiry which finds that the pilots were warned of the bird. Becomes a firing for not considering the dangers of the bird.
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