Recent content by New Guy

I retract my suggestion to ban anyone from our airspace. It was an act of hyperbole to focus attention on the need to never again allow a subservient crewmember to fail to speak up when a plane is about to crash. I had no idea I'd receive such a negative response to what I thought to be a...

Great question, Jose. We need to spend less time teaching new pilots how to operate the fancy electronics and more time teaching them how to fly airplanes. The weak link in South Korea is that (thanks to that pesky war back in the early 50's) they don't allow private aviation. None of those...

Thanks for the first cojent reply I've yet encountered on this forum, John. "Culture" refers to the systems we habitated humans become comfortable with and rarely challenge. If we as pilots fail to even Think about our mistakes, we will continue to repeat them.

Sorry Lynn. There are thousands of posts on this forum and I've only read a few. I'm not challenging anyone's opionion, I'm simply sharing mine in hopes of engaging in a rational discourse. So far, not so successfully.

No, John. Read previous reply. It's Not about race or nationality, it's about rationally addressing the problem of failed cockpit resource management, learning from mistakes and avoiding future accidents.

No competent pilot would have allowed that to have happened, Dude. There's a cultural history of honoring the Captain and not speaking up. This is nothing new or specific to the asian culture. As I was starting out in the business, it was assumed that the Captain was God and an upstart...

1) Why do we still allow South Koreans into our airspace when they've proven themselves incapable of flying a simple visual approach or recognizing the fact that their autothrottles didn't kick in? 2) What happened with that Southwest 737 at LGA? 3) Anyone out there flown the Cessna 162?