Daily Reminder: FAA doesn't care if you are dumber than a bag of rocks but if you smoked weed they will hunt you down to the ends of the earth

Weed ain’t my deal, but how would the FAA even know?

The only way they would know is if someone did something that would make a bag of rocks looks smart

Take the case of officer <82 IQ here

 
I loved how he was turning the yoke thinking that was going to turn the plane! LOL
 
Addiction is different than intelligence.
 
Is it true I can subvert the expectations of the FAA by getting a pilots license in a foreign country and then transferring it back to the USA?
 
AmIFed said:
Is it true I can subvert the expectations of the FAA by getting a pilots license in a foreign country and then transferring it back to the USA?
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If your problem is weed-related getting a recurring medical will still be the issue, not conversion of a foreign certificate.
As for subversion, FAFO. You'll get little if any sympathy when it goes poorly for you.

Nauga,
who is not a gardener
 
Why does the FAA not make people take an IQ test? The gentleman who is the subject in the aforementioned video certainly would not have passed. It begs to raise the question, are the FAA competent in doing their job of keeping the skies safe?
 
AmIFed said:
Why does the FAA not make people take an IQ test? The gentleman who is the subject in the aforementioned video certainly would not have passed. It begs to raise the question, are the FAA competent in doing their job of keeping the skies safe?
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Well...sometimes they kinda do...can you say neurocognitive testing?
 
AmIFed said:
Why does the FAA not make people take an IQ test? The gentleman who is the subject in the aforementioned video certainly would not have passed. It begs to raise the question, are the FAA competent in doing their job of keeping the skies safe?
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Ya gotta pass an oral exam and a practical test with a DPE, plus convince a CFI you're at least slightly better than functionally retarded. That counts for something...

Also the guy in the YT video is in Canada. The mounties will have to administer his IQ test. Though I think they'd be doing him a favor if they just dismounted and shot him. I couldn't survive the embarrassment of a crash like that being caught on tape.
 
Salty said:
Your IQ isn't relevant to whether or not you can safely operate an aircraft. Plenty of useless, high IQ people out there that are proof of that.
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The V-tail Bonanza is proof of that.
 
Salty said:
Your IQ isn't relevant to whether or not you can safely operate an aircraft. Plenty of useless, high IQ people out there that are proof of that.
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Very very strongly disagree.

Thankfully the <82s are often not in a position to even afford flight training.




Now common sense it a different and much harder to put your finger on metric.

I know some PHDs who if put into a third world country, or if modern society collapsed would be dead or enslaved or something unpleasant inside of a week
 
Roller said:
Very very strongly disagree.

Thankfully the <82s are often not in a position to even afford flight training.




Now common sense it a different and much harder to put your finger on metric.

I know some PHDs who if put into a third world country, or if modern society collapsed would be dead or enslaved or something unpleasant inside of a week
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The obvious thing that you are missing is that testing for a high IQ does nothing to determine if someone can fly or not. Testing for IQ doesn’t determine much of anything other than what you scored on the test.
 
Salty said:
The obvious thing that you are missing is that testing for a high IQ does nothing to determine if someone can fly or not. Testing for IQ doesn’t determine much of anything other than what you scored on the test.
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Tell me you didn’t watch the video without telling me you didn’t watch the video ;)

If one is under a 83 IQ you don’t want them in a plane, or probably even a car for that matter
 
Roller said:
Tell me you didn’t watch the video without telling me you didn’t watch the video ;)

If one is under a 83 IQ you don’t want them in a plane, or probably even a car for that matter
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It’s rather rude to keep talking without reading what others say.
 
Do you guys think you should be required to take an IQ test to vote?
 
Robert Heinlein once suggested that the voting machine could generate a math problem for the voter... solve this quadratic equation and your vote gets counted. But these days even 2+2=4 is a stretch, as shown by the politicians who clearly can't handle simple sums.

But back to flying, maybe it's still good that students are required to learn basic paper navigation even if they never use it. The ability to do basic trigonometry and math weeds out the really stupid.
 
This is a Canadian registered plane and has absolutely nothing to do with the FAA right? This was also student pilot on a solo.

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AmIFed said:
Do you guys think you should be required to take an IQ test to vote?
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Be careful throwing things like that out there. It seems pretty low IQ to rail against the FAA for an accident with a Canadian registered plane and a Canadian student pilot.

Also pretty low IQ to criticize and call a guy dumb when you've never done it yourself.
 
Roller said:
Very very strongly disagree.

Thankfully the <82s are often not in a position to even afford flight training.




Now common sense it a different and much harder to put your finger on metric.

I know some PHDs who if put into a third world country, or if modern society collapsed would be dead or enslaved or something unpleasant inside of a week
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But at least those PhDs have a low IQ.
 
AmIFed said:
Why does the FAA not make people take an IQ test?
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IQ is irrelevant. The level of intelligence required is already tested via the training, testing and medical process. If you can get through those successfully, then you're going to pass a reasonable IQ test.

Besides, the deficiency you're looking at in that disaster student pilot video isn't intelligence. It's an ability to keep your sh*t together under pressure when things go wrong. And that's not tested via IQ.

An ex of mine for instance. She has a bachelors in physics and masters degree in engineering. She'd pass any IQ test you can give. Yet she also shrieked in fear and took her hands off the steering wheel when she hit a patch of ice/snow in a turn and almost got us killed. She'll ace your IQ test and then promptly pilot your plane right into the ****ing ground lol. I wouldn't even trust her to steer a shopping cart without supervision.

IQ != Practical abilities.
 
Roller said:
Very very strongly disagree.

Thankfully the <82s are often not in a position to even afford flight training.


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I find it interesting that the dude talking and dude not talking magically swap seats several times during this video.
 
I think that everyone's medical should be revoked at once and all pilots/student pilots required to take an IQ test
 
AmIFed said:
I think that everyone's medical should be revoked at once and all pilots/student pilots required to take an IQ test
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We did. At least one. Private pilot written. When you take it you'll be asked about the 5 hazardous attitudes of aviation. Id argue youve displayed at least one.
 
To reiterate & simplify a comment I've made in other threads....there are a small minority of new members that come here to whine. When their whining is called out, all they do is continue whining.

As for an IQ test, to quote from the French (and highly reputable) neuroscience research organization,
"IQ is not an objective measure of intelligence. In fact, it is a relative measurement which has its own errors, measures only certain facets of intelligence and is subject to uncertainties."
 
AmIFed said:
I think that everyone's medical should be revoked at once and all pilots/student pilots required to take an IQ test
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Is being surprised that habitual marijuana use has consequences a sign of high or low IQ? What about being unable to navigate a system of medical certification that thousands of others have been able to navigate?

I'd say most who actually make it to be pilots tend to have higher than average IQs. That may be something to think about.
 
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