Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Do you feel safe flying commercial airlines??

Read this and ask your congresscritter why this hasn't been stopped:

https://www.tampafp.com/biden-faa-pushing-diversity-hiring-as-air-traffic/

President Joe Biden’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is striving to enlist a diverse workforce through targeting certain demographics even as its air traffic control system is facing shortages and safety challenges.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has established a goal of hiring employees with severe disabilities at a rate of 3% per fiscal year, according to the FAA’s People with Disabilities Program website. These disabilities include total deafness, blindness, missing limbs, paralysis, epilepsy and dwarfism.

Yes, but I actually took AP statistics

You do remember how those weak, unqualified army women got their Ranger tabs, right???

I feel a lot safer if someone else is flying. I do not know how to fly.

A blind air traffic controller? I don't "see" a problem

Radar screen in braille???

I don't want an affirmative action heart surgeon or airline pilot, thank you very much.

The last commercial flight was on the one that brought me home in 1971. I think Viet Nam did it for me. I get left home when ever my wife wants to go places.

Is a reality. Women and minorities get hired with much lower flight hours and experience. There's plenty of people who shouldn't be flying that are. Multiple checkride failures and still getting hired. The high cost to entry with very low entry wages years ago, the airlines did this to themselves. Now with record retirements they're taking everyone, even those who shouldn't be there.

Safest form of domestic travel.

Grandma has to take her shoes off and get scanned in the airport meanwhile terrorists walk across the border by the thousands and get a free bus ticket.

Make sense of that.

My son and his wife are pilots, he has been in martial arts his whole life, he is a double black belt and at 6’4” , strong and fast, she was a fighter pilot, she is very capable in taking care of her family and her passengers, you couldn’t find two more brave and experienced Americans to fly your planes. But I completely understand the dumbing down of America by weak politicians, they are all weak.

I feel safe, but there is nothing fun about flying these days. I hate it. After you go through security you no longer have any rights. Airline employees own you. I'm not a big man(5'-9"@160lbs) but the seats in economy class are stupidly small. I don't know how a big guy copes. This is why I fly 1st class when I can. If traveling less than 1000 miles or so I drive.

If they get them down to 3% I'd feel much safer.

LOL

Commercial air travel is a fugking joke.

If the good lord calls you home you’ll at least have some company

For me lack of air travel isn’t about safety but about being tested like live stock.


Road trippin fer me; safety be damned.

The quality of service, and comfort, on flights has degraded to the point that they are more comparable to a bus trip back in the 70's.

Safe, yes. Annoyed, angry, ripped off, uncomfortable, treated like subhuman, need a shower after flying them, yes.

Whut??? I've been watching a lot of podcasts on YouTube, one of which I specifically like is the Shawn Ryan Show. He's had several Rangers, Delta guys and Seals on his show. Many of them often speak about the training. I don't see any way a woman could have made it through Ranger school. Sorry.

I haven’t flown commercial since about 2000. I know who’s up front. 😳😁