PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - United GRU-ORD Divert to MIA to Offload Purser
Old 26th Jul 2009, 01:26
  #418 (permalink)  
Flying Lawyer
 
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: London
Posts: 2,916
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
virginblue
….. this will probably end up in a court of law with the captain and the airline fighting over the termination of his contract. The one who will be calling the shots then is a judge - someone who may have never seen a cockpit from the inside or even flown. So just sit back, close your eyes for a moment and try to imagine how a judge as a layman in aviation matters will rule …..
I have no idea how the judge would rule, but I do know this: The judge would want a great deal more information before coming to a conclusion - including the captain’s side of the story. (As Rainboe has sensibly been urging.)
A judge reading this thread would be amazed at the way some posters condemn the captain on so little information, especially without knowing his side of the story, and surprised that those who have never operated an airliner express an opinion at all. (Unless the judge had been reading PPRuNe for years and had seen it happen many times before.)
“The judge may have never seen a cockpit from the inside or even flown.”
True, and would probably have no expertise in the operation of airliners. That's why the parties would probably call expert evidence from people who have. ie Experienced airline captains.
Neither side’s lawyers (unless they were spectacularly incompetent) would attach any weight to the opinion of someone who wasn’t and never had been a professional airline pilot and based his/her opinion upon being a frequent traveller, or having managerial experience in some other field or holding a PPL.

One Outsider
The monday morning quarterback second guessers, who infest every thread around here with their insistence on commenting on everything they have no experience, insight, understanding or knowledge of, needs to be told they are just that.
Harsh, but fair comment.

I too wish that, when aviation matters involving specialist knowledge and expertise are being discussed, those who have neither would just read and learn from the various opinions offered by those who have. It wouldn't then be necessary to wade through the chaff to get to the wheat.

Dani
I’m not an airline pilot so I wouldn’t presume to challenge your earlier post about how an airliner should be commanded (forgive me for using that word) but I do wonder if, upon reflection, you might think your most recent post is perhaps a little childish?
If you still cannot agree (I guess it's your nature), I gladly agree on a bet about every sum or good you want. But I won in the THY/AMS thread ………
Well done, if you did (Congratulations!), but that doesn’t detract from the force of what Rainboe is arguing here.
You wouldn't make a great judge.
With respect, based upon your exchanges with him in this thread, Rainboe would make a better judge than you.
Perhaps you think judges jump to conclusions based on limited and untested information/without hearing both sides and are ‘great' judges if they turn out to be correct. (Wrong.)


.
Flying Lawyer is offline