We don't need people that know the old system. We need people that know the new system.
They need both.
This topic obviously caught my eye as I decided to take a break from that other post I just did and then I suppose I should not be surprised at how rapidly this topic went into "Hate You/Them" political rants.
I'm beginning to understand the sadness of the whole situation for so many of you; the hate that you have allowed into your minds is tainting every thought process and that is sad.
You'll immediately counter, in your own mind before addressing me, that it isn't hate that has so much influence on your thought processes of ALL topics, but this thread about a topic that could involve the lives of well over 70% of the nation's citizens so rapidly going down that "Hate You/Them" path before other, more helpful thought processes kick in; that is just sad. Really sad.
And maybe it isn't more than "70%" of people that will climb on a bird, but it is a whole bunch of your fellow citizens. AND they may be influenced by an accident/incident even if not on the bird.
An ATC's job and the equipment needed to do that job; have any of you really got a full picture in your head of just how complicated that job is? I would bet that most of you haven't a clue what goes into getting a bird to rotate, travel an air corridor, and do an approach and get 'wheels down' safely; and maybe comfortably, in most cases. That comfort factor is kind of a biggie, but even if the pacs exit the bird as angry for that sharp jolt upon wheels down, the PIC is still breathing a sigh of relief that all his charges are safe.
By the way, an odd tidbit of information I can add that some of you may not know. Here in Japan, our U.S. ATCs have priority over a whole bunch of the airspace around the Kanto area. Isn't that weird.
Anyway, next time one of you folks walk onto the bird on a given flight, be sure you ask the flight attendant if that particular bird is a Democratic Party loyal bird, or maybe a Republican Party loyal bird, or maybe even an Independent - - - OH MY; maybe even a communist bird. Better be careful, too, about discussing politics while in flight. If the majority of the pacs are Republican folks and the bird is actually partial to the Left leaning side of politics, that bird may ignore the PIC and hit that active really hard when landing.
Or maybe you think an aircraft is an inanimate object. I can assure you, all those birds are just like their smaller cousins up there. Sometimes they even gobble up a cousin or two in those big noisy things called jets.
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