Dozy, please don't worry yourself about Jondc9. What you consider to be an exalted position is actually only a pedestal of his own making!
Jondc9's experience of flying four engined jets is limited to the BAe146 (probably still known as the HS146 in his day). If you think his experience of that aircraft can be compared with that of the B744 and all its systems and system redundancies then you would be sadly mistaken. Jon was very quick to criticise the BA crew on the original thread when he exposed his lack of knowledge about B744 systems and what it actually says in the AFM about continued flight with an engine shut down.
Yes, we know he would "prefer" to return to LAX and no doubt that is one option available to the crew but for him to then claim that the decision to carry on was a "
FU#$up" only serves to ignite this old debate once more. The fact that the dear old FAA were actually cornered into their announcement about their intent to 'fine' BA has somehow been conveniently forgotten by the famous talking head, Mr jondc9. It was only thanks to some lowly light aircraft examiner from a local FSDO office blabbing to the media with his uninformed tripe about all aircraft supposedly having to land at the nearest airport that the FAA had to be seen to be defending one of their own and they announced that there would be a prosecution.
How convenient that Jondc9 didn't mention in his post that after BA announced that they would defend such an action that the FAA realised they didn't have a leg to stand on, never mind the pedestal that our famous Jondc9 has elevated himself to, that they dropped the charges.
So Dozy, you still have a chance to achieve the exalted position of B744 pilot, something that Jondc9 isn't. What he fails to realise that on this website he is preaching to the converted whereas on CNN he is, in his own eyes, the god-pilot that is able to talk over live shots of something that he has little experience of but thinks he does!
