Because, of course, anyone who sues gets a payout. No need to wait and see if they win…
I’d be willing to bet airline passengers are favored by strict liability attaching to their flight. IE, you fly, you get hurt, they are liable as in MH370. No one knows what happened, but the passengers didn’t arrive safely so the airline pays.
That sounds like a way better policy than the one my amateur-pilot friend described. It’s possible that he wasn’t up on the rules, but we had that conversation maybe a year or eighteen months ago, so it could be that the changes you describe came in since then. Either way, it’s good to hear.
If Germany had the NRA he could have bought a pistol to blow out his brains with. 18 thousand people a year do it in the USA.
SIAP (Couldn’t be bothered to read the entire thread)
How is something like this not uncovered during the routine psych exam? This is like a cop saying “I want to teach those minorities a lesson”.
Golly, BigT, you’re right. Thanks for setting me straight on that, because until today I was sure that everyone who sues is awarded money.
If anyone deserves a big payout, it’s you, for all the life wisdom you’ve shared with us. But I’m happy to keep taking it for free as long as you keep offering! LOL :)
If you were aware of that, then your previous post was wilfully misleading.
Thanks, and to Broomstick as well.
I guess what I’m interested in is how the US requirements and particularly the practical application of those requirements, including voluntary company policy, differs from how things are done elsewhere.
For example, get lives, referring to statements made by the FO to his then girlfriend, says:
What routine psych exam is he referring to? Do pilots in the US have routine psych exams? The info you’ve given only covers voluntary disclosure which really means nothing, it doesn’t state that you must have psych assessments and it is useless against anyone who chooses to hide any mental health issues they have.
I’ve been a pilot for 20 years now, and for my licensing in New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and Australia I’ve never once had a psych assessment of any kind. There’s probably a question during my medical that says something like, “do you or have you ever suffered from a mental illness such as depression etc?” tucked in amongst all the other routine questions, but it is hardly a psych assessment. I’m interested to know whether my experience is normal or not.
I’m also interested to know, when get lives states that he:
How is he going to judge the psych assessment policies of various airlines? Is he going to request a copy of their operations manuals from airline management and make his decision based on that? Or what? It reminds of another poster a while back who stated authoritatively that he wouldn’t fly with any airline that didn’t use ACARS; I was never able to find out what method he was going to use to ascertain the equipment fit of all the different airliners he flew on.
That has been my experience as a private pilot in the US
I did have to sing a release allowing the FAA access to my medical records, but I have no idea if they ever looked at them or if that is a “just in case” sort of thing, where if they think there’s a problem they’ll look but otherwise won’t bother.
Things may or may not be more involved for a commercial or an airline pilot (there’s actually more than one level of commercial pilot, with airline or “ATP” rating at the top).
I pit the newspaper editors that didn’t pull today’s Wumo comic (can’t link from phone).
I am not a pilot at all, but considering what I have heard pilots say to my face, the diff between getting a pilot’s license and getting commercial flight certification is a pretty wide gap… comparable to the difference between getting a pilot’s license and getting greenlighted to fly Apollo spacecraft to the moon. Yeah, I’m exaggerating, but not by much. They’re tested, regulated, and restricted out the wazoodle.
Sure, I wouldn’t mind being the famous idol of jillions, but I do not think I would care to be known as a famous crazy man who murdered over a hundred people because I was having a bad day. Or even a bad month.
This one?
Indeed, poor taste, that.
Or timing, really, to be fair.
Yeah, the comics are made well in advance. Newspapers can probably pull them and run an old strip if they want to, but it’s not like they’re getting them the night before.
I didn’t find it in too poor of taste though. The only way it’s related to the plane crash is that someone is killing innocent people as part of his job. The method is different, the scale is different, the reason is different. Newspaper comics are already pretty much the least-offensive form of entertainment there is, and then you get all the easily-offended people writing in whenever there’s anything at all that can be construed as mildly disparaging to any identifiable group or remotely related to any recent tragedy.
That’s 20 years of commercial, class 1 medicals.
Edit: I’m not sure if you were agreeing, disagreeing, or neither?
Am I looking at the wrong comic? Your link takes me to a picture of three roosters.
The site must have changed the pics Richard. Previously it was a rather more bleak comic about how an employee, faced with challenges by his employer, alters the road-lines so that the road runs off the edge of a cliff in the mountains.
Thanks.