Originally Posted by
Mr Proach
Quote: "......... please don’t think that pilots are a special group of employees who demand more respect than others. Respect is earned!"
So in your view you think an accountant/financial controller or some so titled "accountable manger" has the same level of responsibility and is monitored to same degree as a pilot?
Pilots "earn respect" by virtue of what they do every time they perform a flight which is infinitely more times than a fancy mouth HR/Manager who know how to fool an unknowing audience into believing that hey are instrumental to the integrity and safety practices of an aviation organisation. These are the same group of people that regularly engage in the organisational abuse, intimidation and victimisation of pilots. These people know that it is very easy to get away with these appalling practices because they know how to obfuscate the truth behind a labyrinth of manuals also knowing there won't be any extensive probing from the authorities because they can easily dismiss them at any time of their choosing. This is poles apart from a pilot who in this day and age will be investigated for any minor deviation (including non-safety related matters) let alone for a more significant event after which he/she will investigated to the nth degree by a panel of people who like said managers wouldn't have the remotest idea of what it takes to handle an emergency whilst trying to control a complex piece of machinery in a three dimensional environment.
And are all the participants who work in an aviation organisation monitored by recording devices? (ANSWER = NO) Will these people ever have to make to spilt second decisions under extremely traumatic conditions? (ANSWER = NO) Do these people have to operate under the weight of more than a million pages of complex rules and regulations all of which ensure the pilot will bear the ultimate responsibility? (ANSWER = NO). Are pilots remunerated commensurate for the accountability and legal responsibility they incur every time they step foot in a aircraft? (ANSWER = NO).
This only skims the surface of the burden that is placed upon a pilot throughout the execution of his/her duties, so does a pilot deserve more respect for their role & responsibilities within an aviation organisation? (ANSWER = IF NO, then remove all the rules, regulations and manuals that are binding on a pilot and remove all the recording devices that monitor a pilot's actions and reduce the degree of scrutiny that pilots are subjected to, otherwise, the ANSWER = YES)
Now that is one heck of an intelligent and articulate reply. Well said 👍