Re: Security checks for crews are getting to the riduculous!
Quote leeyjet:
You all chose to work in the industry so have to accept that security screening is a major part of it, so rather than hassling those low paid chaps on the screening points, why not just go with the flow and get on with it, it actually takes more time to argue with them than it would to go with the flow
1) Firstly, when I started we weren´t checked at all
2) I don´t argue with screeners. They do their job.
3) I´m an air taxi pilot, that means that on an average day I pass the checkpoints roughly 6 to 10 times. When you are searched 10 times a day, it becomes simply unnerving. I can´t comment for other countries, but in Germany, to get an airside pass, they run a check on you, that reveals EVERYTHING that in the files on you. Secret services of all sorts check you, the police does etc etc. If one would fail this background check or refuses it, he would get his licence pulled. Who else would loose everything? If you´re a cleaner you can clean offices instead of aircraft. I can´t fly trucks or boats...
Next question, why the f... aren´t train passengers (and drivers) check. Anyone remebembering Madrid and London? Where is the check on your religious background and mind if you´re driving a truck, carrying maybe 40 tons of highly explosive fuel? (anyone remembering Djerba?) Or if you are working with chemicals?
9/11 was awful and IT WAS ON TV. LIVE, more or less. For weeks we saw the pictures again and again. THAT IS why "something" is done - no other reason whatsoever. IMO.
Last edited by His dudeness; 13th January 2006 at 18:44.