I am a retired pilot - so maybe should shut-up...
Many years of flying, not far from 24,000 hrs... no accidents, no violations.
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Oops, violations...! - Well, honestly, many. Maybe at least one per flight.
Some "exceeding 250 below 10,000" - some "busting DH on ILS by 20 ft".
And many "admitting armed terrorists in flight deck".
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Pprune is mostly "UK territory", and "UK opinions"...
As a kid, I admired UK (originally from Belgium, you guys liberated us in 1944).
UK (and USA) meant "Liberty" and "Freedom" to me.
Compared to what was Germany 1933-1945...
"Befehl ist befehl" - Nazi order, and "der discipline" with no discussions.
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I do not recognize UK...
You gentlemen sit on regulation books and never bend any rules.
You are so perfect in observing the law, makes me sick.
Famous soccer players, on charter flights, top the list of terrorists.
And you never pass me (on the left) 20 mph over limit when on the M-1...
I thought Germans were like that. They are very far from these manners.
They observe the rules when required, and bend rules if they do not apply.
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I think about private pilots who got to observe a takeoff and landing...
These kids on my lap, age 10 "flying my 747", fostering a pilot career...?
Little old ladies who never again got afraid to fly, with AK-47 in handbag.
The father who took in-flight pictures of their kids wearing pilots earphones.
Newlyweds on their honeymoon, passing the Equator in the flight deck.
And a personal acquaintance (tenor) Andrea Bocelli, on the jump seat.
Definitely (being blind), he is, of all of them, the most dangerous terrorist.
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Happy contrails, from my rocking chair