TSA trying to get flight deck privileges
Dec 9, 2012 | 3:04 pm
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TSA trying to get flight deck privileges
I was talking with an airline capt. today & he advised me that the TSA has been trying to get flight deck privileges.
No reason to think it will ever happen & like he said even it did no airline capt. is going to allow them to ride
as they hate the TSA so bad.
No reason to think it will ever happen & like he said even it did no airline capt. is going to allow them to ride
as they hate the TSA so bad.
Dec 10, 2012 | 10:12 am
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Can someone find a link to this? It seems as if pilots have so far been tolerating the TSA since they don't have to endure their worst, but I can imaging them making a pretty good scene if the TSA wanted to put their finest McDonald's rejects in the cockpits, either during flight or while on the ground.
What, exactly, is the TSA's stated reason for wanting to do this? I'm no pilot, but if a TSA clerk inspected my bicycle for safety, I wouldn't ride it until I gave it a thorough once-over to make sure he didn't steal the brake shoes and wheel hubs.
What, exactly, is the TSA's stated reason for wanting to do this? I'm no pilot, but if a TSA clerk inspected my bicycle for safety, I wouldn't ride it until I gave it a thorough once-over to make sure he didn't steal the brake shoes and wheel hubs.
Dec 10, 2012 | 11:38 am
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A TSA Employee would have no clue as to what anything in the Cockpit is for. Only one reason I can think of. TSA wants access to the flight deck / Airline Pilots are starting to use iPads in the Flight Deck. Make sense to you?
Dec 10, 2012 | 11:47 am
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OK, so...the TSA wants to make sure the iPads haven't been accessed by Terrorists(TM) who will alter the flight plans and make the pilot crash?
Dec 10, 2012 | 12:15 pm
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I was thinking more along the line of your first sentence.^
Dec 10, 2012 | 5:47 pm
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Anyone with a link?
Dec 10, 2012 | 6:27 pm
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That's what I want to know, too. Inspection before the flight? Last minute random patdowns of pilots? Free rides between airports? Just trying to see what new outrageous thing they can get away with? None of it sounds rational, but this IS the TSA we're talking about.
Anyone with a link?
Anyone with a link?
Dec 11, 2012 | 12:34 pm
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Dec 11, 2012 | 12:37 pm
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Dec 11, 2012 | 12:39 pm
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Let me rephrase that: something resembling a pilot uniform and airline ID.