Do we, as a group, just suck?

I see your vote is for more idiots. You're for "masses" even if they're
"asses." You might as well--as we all should--face the fact that pilots are
a relatively small group of people and will remain that way until they make
flying small aircraft fully automated. Getting rid of the bottom 10% of the
barrel won't render us politically ineffective.

I don't remember advocating more difficult primary training requirements but
to make myself clear, I think there should be a way to ensure that pilots
who should never be up in the air in the first place never make it there. If
you think that's unreasonable, I'm open to opinions. (Maybe the 7-year
suspension on the table would be appealling to you--they would still be able
to consider themselves pilots.)

Marco Leon


"Michael" wrote in message
oups.com...
Maybe they should start thinking about a permanent revocation on severe
TFR
violations. Or maybe they should implement a wash-out possibility
(similar to the
miliary) during PPL training so these folks don't make it into the
system in
the first place.

Makes sense. Because after all, things will be so much better when
it's harder to obtain a pilot certificate, easier to lose it, and there
are fewer of us. I'm sure that even though we will represent fewer
dollars and fewer votes, the politicians (and various anti-noise,
anti-airport activists) will be reasonable and will reward us for being
responsible and policing our own ranks, and will not look at our
declining numbers as a cue that they can restrict us further in order
to appear to be "doing something" (or to increase the value of the
homes they bought at a discount next to the airport) with less
political fallout.

Michael




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