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Old 21st Aug 2012, 16:17
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mike-wsm
 
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I only fly Pan-Am

I used to fly quite often, long distance, in 747SP, with Pan-Am.

But I wouldn't fly now. Dunno what sort of plane I might be put into and dunno whether I'll have pilots who know what to do, think they know what to do, aren't sure what to do, or plain can't hand-fly.

You guys don't inspire a whole lot of confidence, you're all experts of course but some of your younger co-professionals don't have your approval, and the aircraft systems seem to have a nightmarish convolution of hitherto unsuspected behaviours, so how can the paying public trust whichever pilots they happen to pick out of the check-in bran-tub?

If it ain't Pan-Am, I ain't flyin'.
"But mike-wsm, Pan-Am don't fly any more"
"Exactly!"

PS - I've just been banned from the British Mensa forums so you have a rather angry mike-wsm here.
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