Excuse me, this is probably too close to reality to work. But many of these totally idiotic practices of taking shoes off in front of passengers is bound to leave a flight crew member, especially a very senior captain, with deep mental scars from the loss of face and what have you. This is the US, right ? Hot shot lawyer ? Sueing the bastards for an "unspecified amount" for mental damages would be my answer.. .. .I am ground staff, breeze with ease through airports and onto supposedly secure areas. Could bring a ton of armour piercing bazookas, enough TNT to turn a 747 into razor blades not to mention a phlanax of small arms without ever getting searched. To my knowledge nobody ever did a background check of me or my peers, and we are "trusted employees" ? Pleasssee.. .. .This is a
PR exercise and unless a group of pilots stand up against it, incompetent politicians will run the show and it will continue to degenrate. It is either ALL staff who MUST be checked, or none at all. Certainly, in my opinion, flight crews should be the last in line to suffer these pedantic checks.. .. .Oh and by the way, why is it that all this hokus-pokus mainly involves passenger carrying flights ? No, not because freighters are unusable as guided missiles, but rather because there is no
PR value in frisking freight dogs turning up in the middle of the night when the airports are deserted of passengers. Stick it to them ladies and gentlemen.