Geoffrey Thomas Sinks To New Low

[chimbu warrior]

This is pretty typical of training organisations that the airlines outsource to. Most of my knowledge came from pushing the wrong button at the wrong time and either being quickly put in place by a stressed out captain, or by seeing what happens when you're a spectator on a high performance jet. It can get ugly unless you take the right corrective action almost immediately.

Spot on GG; outsourcing and "value priced training" has led to a dearth of appropriate experience at some TRTO's (not all). A type rating accomplished within an airline's own C & T system will usually produce a better result.

While I'm no fan of GT and his self-created credentials, and with my belief he's far from a credible aviation expert and should be labelled as what he is...a journalist, I did feel his comments on Foreign Correspondent were reasonable and not the typical sensationalist speech we've come accustomed to.
I think he deserves a pass this time...

Agreed. Unless I missed something, it was quite a well presented program.

[Derfred]

BNE320,

the reporter kept getting confused between Air Asia Indonesia & Air Asia X.


The former flies OZ to Indo, the later flies KL to OZ & onto AKL.

Incorrect.

[Capn Bloggs]

Originally Posted by Chimbu Warrior

Unless I missed something, it was quite a well presented program.

Agree. No problems with GT's performance on that one.

Originally Posted by Derfred

BNE320,

XPT?

[XPT]

Originally Posted by Derfred

BNE320,



Incorrect.

so what is incorrect then ?

[ALAEA Fed Sec]

Maybe as real aviation people we should start a petition to all the news outlets saying he should not be referenced or called an aviation expert. We could highlight his stupid comments and contradictions when defending hos favourite airlines....

[aussie027]

For anyone claiming to be an "Expert" or offering their "Expert Opinion" on any given subject always remember this-

An "X" is an unknown quantity and "spurt" is just a drip under pressure!!

[XPT]

Originally Posted by aussie027

For anyone claiming to be an "Expert" or offering their "Expert Opinion" on any given subject always remember this-

An "X" is an unknown quantity and "spurt" is just a drip under pressure!!

& tell the truth about Qantas's 19 crashes & 65 deaths in those crashes, not hide behind some dodgy movies claims(Rainman).

[LostProperty]

XPT

& tell the truth about Qantas's 19 crashes & 65 deaths in those crashes, not hide behind some dodgy movies claims(Rainman).


Fair go - wasn't the last fatal crash that Qantas had in the early fifties? And if your figures are correct 65 fatalities is hardly mayhem. If I recall correctly at least one of those early crashes resulted from enemy fire during WW2.

[OzSync]

Pre-jet age accidents don't really have much relevance to current safety standards.

[Beer Baron]

tell the truth about Qantas's 19 crashes & 65 deaths in those crashes

Well you can't spell eXPerT without XPT, so please do tell us "the truth" about these crashes and their relevance to anything in the last 50 years??

[Fris B. Fairing]

Yes XPT, let's see your list. You can include domestic ops in the very early days, PNG ops and losses to enemy action.