Take your shoes off - Aviation security
Aimed primarily at the Flight Deck Crew.
Pre Flight Airport Security Checks.
Forgive me everybody if this topic has been discussed recently - I have been absent from the forum for a while.
A new memo has just been published by the flag carrier regarding the levels of scrutiny flight crews must endure if "challenged" by a security person, that is, removal of ones shoes.
May I ask how the Flight Deck Crew community respond to this ludicrous farce and stupidity ?
I base my view on the fact the security person must hold a very high suspicion of a terrorist threat from the uniformed pilot, who has obviously failed the oral assessment and the ID test along with the pilot licence test as false (not to mention the full body scan) to reach the desperate stage that the pretender is hiding some weapon of suitable destruction within or about his/her shoes !
Everybody needs to be on HIGH alert to genuine security breaches, but is this latest nauseating security measure a paper exercise or do you all comply without a moan when so "challenged" ?
TG