If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#21
|
|||
|
|||
SelwayKid wrote: How would you handle a situation where a paying passenger began to manhandle the controls? Stick a pencil in his ear to get him to release the controls if he didnt listen. Probably bop him in the nose to bring tears to his eyes if he persisted What would you do if a passenger keeps interrupting you during a single pilot IFR approach into a very busy airport? Ask nicely once to please be quiet as instructed in the preflight breifing. Then quit asking nicely. THen switch the intercom to "pilot" only. What would you do if your passengers lit up their marijuana in the back of a twin? Ask them if they brought enough for everyone. How did you handle it? What would you do if the passenger was so big they kept getting in the way of control travel? Slide his seat all the way back, and not try to fly where I needed that much control travel. Didnt you check freedom of control movement in your pre-takeoff checklist? This shouldnt have been an airborne surprise. What would you do if your passenger decided to get out of the airplane while in flight? Note the position very well, so they wouldnt have to wait two days for the buzzards to circle to find the body, like they did down in Houston last year. A former rocket scientist decided to try Skydiving sans chute like that last year. He didnt have cancer like the 84 year old did, he only was facing charges for stealing govt property. These are all real and all have happened to me in my 45 years of flying. A lot more that I can't think of at the moment. A pilot was recently faced with it when an 84 year old man decided to unstrap and get out of the front cockpit of a biplane and plunged to his death. The pilot was unable to stop him. What would you do? What COULD you do? Dave |
#22
|
|||
|
|||
"C J Campbell" wrote in message ... My bad. Forgot to look at the date of this troll. My solution to all the above problems would be to shoot the passenger. If he had drugs or cash, I would steal them. Hmmm...the "Armed pilots" thread resurrected. |
#23
|
|||
|
|||
"C J Campbell" wrote in message ... My bad. Forgot to look at the date of this troll. My solution to all the above problems would be to shoot the passenger. If he had drugs or cash, I would steal them. Is that why the airline pilots want to carry guns? :~) |
#24
|
|||
|
|||
"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message news "Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message ... And he wouldn't cold-cock the guy trying to get out of the plane? Steven is slipping. It's his life, if he truly wants to end it that is his right. Agreed...vehemently. (Though the points made about falling hazards, etc., are quite legitimate. His life is his own, but go quietly into that long good-night..) |
#25
|
|||
|
|||
SelwayKid wrote: What would you do if your passenger decided to get out of the airplane while in flight? Dial up appropriate frequency for the airspace, and announce skydiver exiting the aircraft. |
#26
|
|||
|
|||
"Buff5200" wrote in message ... SelwayKid wrote: What would you do if your passenger decided to get out of the airplane while in flight? Dial up appropriate frequency for the airspace, and announce skydiver exiting the aircraft. You'll get violated for failing to post a skydiving NOTAM 30 minutes prior. |
#27
|
|||
|
|||
|
#28
|
|||
|
|||
"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message ... "Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message news "Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message ... And he wouldn't cold-cock the guy trying to get out of the plane? Steven is slipping. It's his life, if he truly wants to end it that is his right. Agreed...vehemently. (Though the points made about falling hazards, etc., are quite legitimate. His life is his own, but go quietly into that long good-night..) Baloney. No one's life is their own, nor is anyone an island to themselves. No one can commit suicide without adversely affecting the lives of many others. (Well, maybe Saddam Hussein could.) People who wish to kill themselves rarely, perhaps never, stay that way for long. Those who are stopped are invariably thankful that someone intervened. A better approach is counseling and help with their problems. Suicide is always dangerous to others. People are stuck with the chore of cleaning up afterwards. Everyone has to pay the costs of medical care for botched suicide attempts, which far outnumber successful suicides. Many would-be suicides end up permanently disabled, adding a further burden to taxpayers and insurance payers, often for decades. Family members and friends are invariably traumatized by the event. Marriages are broken up and children are raised without parents. The children of suicides are far more likely to commit suicide themselves when they get older. Their grades suffer and they become less productive as adults. Fortunes are wasted on counseling. Many turn to drugs, with corresponding effects on crime, society, and the economy. Killing yourself does not make your problems go away. It just transfers them to someone else. It may come as a shock to you, but most people think it is better to deal with problems rather than run away from them. The vast majority of people, even those with terrible, terminal diseases, manage to get by from day to day and even do something productive. It is an insult to these brave individuals to suggest that killing yourself might be a better alternative. Letting some guy who is drunk, disoriented, or distressed kill himself 'because it his right' is a gross disservice to both the individual and the community around him. |
#29
|
|||
|
|||
"C J Campbell" wrote in message ... Baloney. No one's life is their own, nor is anyone an island to themselves. In a free society one's life is their own. No one can commit suicide without adversely affecting the lives of many others. Irrelevant. |
#30
|
|||
|
|||
"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message ink.net... "C J Campbell" wrote in message ... Baloney. No one's life is their own, nor is anyone an island to themselves. In a free society one's life is their own. That would only be true if killing yourself does not make everybody else less free. Suicide impinges on the freedom of everyone else, who must now support the suicide's family, educate his children, pay for his medical bills, and possibly even support him for the rest of his life if he botches the attempt and merely permanently disables himself. We also have to pay higher insurance premiums, clean up mess, deal with reduced property values, and suffer many other economic costs imposed on us by the suicide. Suicide reduces freedom. It is worth noting that suicide rates are highest in societies that have the least amount of freedom, as in imperial Rome and feudal Japan. A society that tolerates or even encourages suicide is the antithesis of free. |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
IFR Passengers? | C Kingsbury | Instrument Flight Rules | 19 | November 4th 04 06:51 PM |
Passengers in flight at one time | Scott Summers | General Aviation | 0 | November 13th 03 02:23 PM |
Ownership and passengers | Roger Long | Owning | 30 | October 11th 03 02:00 PM |
Headphones For Passengers | Scott Lowrey | Piloting | 2 | August 20th 03 06:12 AM |
Canadians: Cost-sharing with passengers? | Drew Hamilton | Piloting | 2 | July 24th 03 08:23 PM |