Pablo Sacked from MyTravel
 

Pablo Mason has been sacked from MyTravel after letting a footballer on the flight deck.
Not strictly military but Pablo Mason was a Tornado GR1 pilot in the Gulf War 1.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770

Surely not the same bloke who had to leave his last employer after breaking the rule that said "do not take off with the SPILS switched off", lost it and got the Martin Baker letdown. As he so ably quoted," rules are there for the guidance of fools" etc etc.

:D One of my favourite maxims. Which neatly kicks into touch my advice to Hippo. Thats why I was only TG8 I guess.

edit.

PS: On a brighter note, this is another of my favourite Maxims.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/enterta...6801162063.jpg

No loss to SH then!:)

Read the thread on this topic in the Rumours and News Forum. The man is a hero, nay, he's a god and the victim in this whole sad affair. His fellow professional pilots blame everybody but him. Suppose this famous footballer had just had a snort of something white and powdery or a few tots too many before being invited to the flight deck. If the RAF got pi**ed off with Mason's antics, why shouldn't a company that carries passengers?
s37

Did he need a higher score than an Army candidate at OASC?

On the plus side, one more seat vacancy at MYT......if that sort of thing bothers you!

:}

what a sad bunch you lot really are.

Go put your heads back where they came from, up your own backsides

There's a hint of 'the final straw' about Mason's antic.....

Maybe, but schadenfreude is also a fools game

I am sorry, but in my mind, the man was a living legend. I am sure you all know the story of how he crossed over from rotes to fast jet...

I am sorry to say this but he is a dying breed, currently being replaced by buffoons who think a bi-annual fitness test and wearing berets in theatre are a good thing. We need more like Pablo in the RAF right now if we are going to save it, not less.

Yamaha,
That's two posts here and one on Rumours & News none of which contributed a great deal to either thread.
Defend the guy by all means but with some kind of reasoned argument.

Vin Rouge,
Agreed we need as many Pablo's as we can get in the RAF flying Tonkas and Typhoons etc but not in civil airliners.
s37

not defending Pablo, just find the posts, particularly from the military, PATHETIC

Nothing more, nothing less.

Flew back from Rhodes (as SLF) with Pablo in the LHS.

My, does he like the sound of his own voice. He was on the PA as we were boarding with his tales and homilies, and due to late pax etc. we had a good 20 minutes of him, which was about 19.30 too much. The rest of the pax were lapping it up while I was scrambling in the seat-pocket for the barf-bag.

Truly a legend in his own lunchtime.

Kicking a bloke when he's down was never an honourable tradition.

Looks like a safe pair of hands - like flying with your dad!
As we don't have many "old, bold pilots" around anymore, this old one would probably, and safely, convince me, as long he is not related to Carlos at Lajes, in the Azores

Is she related to Emma?

:}

Back on topic, the rule may be pants but they are there for the obeyance of everyone, fools and wise men included, in the outside world. Sad, maybe, but true. Don't know Pablo, read the book and saw him on the telly as I was going through trg, but that's it. Hope all works out well for him (but my comment about spare seats still stands!!)

The "anti" comments here say more about the folk posting than about the man himself, especially the ones who had a chance to tell him face to face but obviously didn't.

I must admit, I was waiting for an example to be made like this and hopefully highlight the complete waste of time some of the new security rules are. What if it had been Pablo's father on the jump seat? Still a security risk? What are we trying to achieve by restricting access to the jump seat.
Unfortunately, we have rules for rules sake, passed by Transec, whom I get the impression are reluctant to rock the boat. Let us not forget, we have flying staff that have access to the flight deck that haven't been security checked purely because they are resident abroad.
Do we still allow certain minorities to carry a dagger airside as it is part of their religion? If I, as a white christian tried to pass with the same dagger, would it be taken from me?
My sympathies are with Pablo, however ,I don't rate his chances of winning.

Having read about Pablo many years ago, he does have quite a history. Most of which was very good and anyone who put their life on the line flying over warzones has my full respect.

However, with all that has gone on in the world over the last six or so years and especially in the aviation industry, can we really afford to go breaking rules set out by the DfT that are there to protect people?

We may not like them but as bureaucratic as they may sound, rules are rules and if you break them and get caught, you have to be prepared to take whatever crap is coming your way. Over the last few years the rules have been put into black and white with no or very few grey areas.