Originally Posted by
Tobias-UK
I hope not a commercial pilot. IIRC you have been quite vociferous on a number of occasions regarding airline safety procedures where your view of safety procedures and requirements is very much at odds with that of the safety regulators and indeed the professional pilots who frequent this board.
I find that sort of apparently haphazard approach to airline safety rather disconcerting, especially so from someone who actually flies the aircraft! The safety rules are mandated for a purpose, it is not for you nor I to ignore those safety rules because we may feel we know better than the regulators. It is not for us to choose which rules we will obey and those we will not.
Your statement is without merit, insulting and wrong.
I am not sure where you think I have once said I do not follow the regs for pilots. Yes, I have my own opinions, but, as I have said many times, I follow the rules, whether I agree with them or not. Simply copying and pasting one page of regs from literally 1000s of pages does not give an even a remotely accurate description of the rules we must follow and, taken in the abstract, confuse people.
Sigwx listing of AMC1 CAT.GEN.MPA.140 does nothing but clutter this thread. Neither of you cited anything to back (false) claims about safety.
But, again, if the PIC tells me to turn off a device, put my seatbelt on or not use the restroom, I do. Not because I agree or disagree, but because the regs require it. When on the ground, I will 100% ask questions, challenge (false) assumptions and debate the merits of current regs. That is how we gain knowledge and improve safety.
Safe pilots stay safe and keep their passengers safe by following the regs, dealing in facts and following the direction of ATC, even if we don't agree. Then dealing with any concerns on the ground.
As for your implication that I am not a safe pilot, shame on you. I am probably the safest pilot on this board; ZERO incidents/infractions/violations/etc over decades of flying. (Not many pilots can say that.) Where I take exception on FT is people professing things that are simply not true - or warping the truth - claiming "safety", as you have done now several times.
Perhaps in the future if you want contribute valuable insights, you can cite facts, not just copying a page of regs and making wild baseless (insulting) accusations.