what is the next big problem in aviation?
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what is the next big problem in aviation?
I'm asking the pilots of the world, what the next big thing affecting the safety of airline flying in the world?
this is only to spur discussion to possibly prevent something happening in the future...through education and fore knowledge.
if this is the wrong place, I apologize.
this is only to spur discussion to possibly prevent something happening in the future...through education and fore knowledge.
if this is the wrong place, I apologize.
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It all depends on who is asking the question. If you are an airline, you'd say that your costs are already too high and are continuing to grow. If you asked a Greeny, they'd say that there is already too much aviation. Ask DTV airport and they'd say there isn't enough and nobody loves them. A wannabe F/O would say that nobody is recruiting. And so on... The trouble is, they are all probably right.
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Peak oil - escalating fuel prices - just a matter of time but when is anyone's guess.
Solution - new form of propulsion.
Increasing mindless bureaucratic nonsense.
Solution - peaceful revolution.
Solution - new form of propulsion.
Increasing mindless bureaucratic nonsense.
Solution - peaceful revolution.
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The continuing rise of techs rote trained to pass license exams but without either the experience or knowledge to avoid the pitfalls once away from the learning environment.
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Pilots becoming disconnected from the rest of humanity due to their language being indecipherable to the rest of society with the ever expanding use of acronyms and feel good descriptions of how to think that for the rest of society is just using common sense.
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The minimum pay is now with the regionals but I can see it creaping up into Legacy carriers too. I have flown with a few of these guys and the captain job gets a lot harder. You would like to be single pilot sometimes.
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P51guy;
You are absolutely right, but I can remember similar statements being made when we were newly fledged.
FireflyBob: sod peaceful revolution, I'd like to go through the CAA here like Rambo in a temper!
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You are absolutely right, but I can remember similar statements being made when we were newly fledged.
FireflyBob: sod peaceful revolution, I'd like to go through the CAA here like Rambo in a temper!
SND
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what is the next big problem in aviation?
Watching granny struggling with the drinks cart is a pitiful sight. Watching some nice 20 year old doing the same is a joy that makes the hours fly by.
The US is already screwed, the UK isn't far behind. It seems Asia is the last bastion of the hot hostie.
It's a sad day for aviation.
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While sophisticated automation is responsible for lowering the accident rate it comes with a cost. Blind reliance on automation and the inevitable degradation of pure flying skills needs to be addressed during training and not just lip service as shown by the occasional hand flown instrument approach. There are often opportunities available during routine line flying to switch off the automatic pilot and flight director and allow the pilots to hand fly. The problem is that the automatics have caused the pilots to be lazy and this in turn leads to an aversion to hand flying. Piloting skills go downhill from that point. Loss of control is now the most significant cause of fatal accidents. But airlines and regulators put that in the too hard basket. Not in my backyard they say. I doubt that trend will ever be reversed.
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The next big problem in aviation is maintaining the previously set safety standard.
What used to be an industry where those with the proper personal characteristics were picked for the job and given the adequate training is now an industry where the wannabe with the most cash buys his own training and makes himself the cheaper option for the airline.
It's about airline managements understanding what the costs for operating an airline actually are and it's about educating the whole companies in CRM and the underlying factors of aviation safety, not only pilots and techs.
It is about airlines actually living up to the priority of safety first.
/LnS
What used to be an industry where those with the proper personal characteristics were picked for the job and given the adequate training is now an industry where the wannabe with the most cash buys his own training and makes himself the cheaper option for the airline.
It's about airline managements understanding what the costs for operating an airline actually are and it's about educating the whole companies in CRM and the underlying factors of aviation safety, not only pilots and techs.
It is about airlines actually living up to the priority of safety first.
/LnS
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Wait until one of those new plastic bombers (e.g. B787) will fall from the sky. While metal (mainly aluminum) does not leave toxic gases upon burning this new carbon fiber-reinforced polymer stuff will. 
Unconcious after emergency landing for a minute? If this bird starts to burn you'll stay that way until your death.
Unconcious after emergency landing for a minute? If this bird starts to burn you'll stay that way until your death.