Con Pilot:
Not really impressed with the 2 male pilots that met the mountain in Cali...Duh..
As for the Value-Jet crash: Not wanting to play Monday Morning quarterback, but uh, the first thing you do if faced with a cockpit or cabin fire/smoke situation: Put the oxygen mask on. If the plane was doomed or not, you don't know till the last minute and ya don't ignore the mask. Or do you Con Pilot?
If you still don't understand: Try to read a Check List, then call me back.
I don't think gender was involved in the decision to ignore the procedures and common sense, but if the captain was hired because of no quals: (Eastern scab, then VJ Pay for Training, then the female factor: Less hours and experience needed than any male, etc: Perhaps the whole mix was/is bad news?)
Pandora:
Yup, I screwed up as far as hormones and X/Y
chromosones.
(Not stupid, just drunken sailor)
Mea culpa.
Female pilots are as good or as bad as any males....Duh..
If SC or whoever does not understand, uh just read the postings over again and try not to move your lips: It is really simple:
I ain't bashing no girl pilots: They as a group are good, have less time and get better jobs than white males.
(It is called preferrential hiring or politically correct or Goverment Mandated and all that, fine, but uh I don't think they are better, or wiser or any worse: Just lucky to be the right sex in the flying business these days: Heck if ya were a Black Female Pilot, ya really had it made: Bullet proof, Fire Proof, etc..)
And again: I have worked with some fine gals:
One B-747 captain with Evergreen. She sure got the job because of heavy quals and hard work: My hat off.
Way to go Linda and others like you.
Those gals that got an easy ride, rich daddy and all that, and said they had to work twice as hard to be twice as good, hmm, I flew with some of ya, and was not very impressed....
Other gals however were great, just don't glorify because of gender.
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Men, this is no drill...
[This message has been edited by TowerDog (edited 30 June 2001).]