Adolescents fly you to Malta

GingerBob_3

fairy_lights wrote: »

Surely life experience is completely irrelevant to someone's ability to fly a plane?
Would you refuse to be treated by a 26 year old doctor?

Certainly not. But I wouldn't expect a 26 year old to be carrying out a heart transplant - far less a 19 year-old (I wonder how he got insurance to drive the plane - maybe there's a whacking great L plate on the back?)

DigForVictory

I dunno - flying as an air cadet at 13 - the lass has racked up the experience and the piloting airmiles. We don't let folk start medicine that young, but pilots don't need that time in school, they need time in cockpit, as first or second pilot, developing skills & responses.

She'll have got the insurance like every other pilot - on a medical, the number of flying hours, plane value & what it is doing. Straightforward commercial work on a finite models of planes, to & from airports with ILS\MLS? Much lower than flying vintage planes without additional technology, stunting at airshows.

How many of us commented without reading it was a lass piloting?!

agrinnall

Guy Gibson was 26 when he led the Dambusters raid and earned his VC, and was killed in action at 28.

Pollycat

GingerBob wrote: »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/26/soaring-to-new-heights---the-26-year-old-easyjet-flight-captain/


Has the world gone mad, or what?


If you saw people of this age driving you on a coach you might not be best pleased - especially a 19 year old!! But is seems it's okay for them to take charge of a multi-million jet and hundreds of passengers (sorry - customers). Quite how someone age 26 has the life experience to be an airline captain is beyond me.

So it's beyond you?

It's not really up to you who Easyjet choose to fly their planes though, is it?

And you might do well to check the definition of 'adolescent' before using incorrect words.

PlymouthMaid

i would much rather have a young alert pilot with recent training under his/her belt than a possibly tired, jaded, stressed older one.

fairy_lights

Joan of Arc was only 19 when she was burnt at stake after leading the French army to victory over the British.

GingerBob_3

Pollycat wrote: »

So it's beyond you?

It's not really up to you who Easyjet choose to fly their planes though, is it?

And you might do well to check the definition of 'adolescent' before using incorrect words.

Pointless comments.


What has whether it's my business got to do with anything? I'm putting forward a point of view. If you disagree with it, then put an alternative argument. Okay then let's replace 'adolescent' with 'spotty faced youth not long out of nappies'. It's a bit of hyperbole - just in case you didn't know, so trot off and look up that one in the dictionary.

London50

GingerBob

You do not state your age but for myself {over 70} I find ALL people in all walks of life seem like schoolchildren but I except that to have the position they have {be it pilot or surgeon} they have had the training to do the job they are employed to do and except that they can do it far better than I ever could :0)

GingerBob_3

London50 wrote: »

GingerBob

You do not state your age but for myself {over 70} I find ALL people in all walks of life seem like schoolchildren but I except that to have the position they have {be it pilot or surgeon} they have had the training to do the job they are employed to do and except that they can do it far better than I ever could :0)

But why then, whenever there's an issue involving pilots do we get to hear how many flying hours they've had? According to your argument, this wouldn't be relevant.


Consider this - if the airliner that went missing over the Indian Ocean had a captain aged 26 and a first officer aged 19 there would have been an international outcry, citing total lack of experience as a possible cause.

fairy_lights

GingerBob wrote: »

But why then, whenever there's an issue involving pilots do we get to hear how many flying hours they've had? According to your argument, this wouldn't be relevant.

The same reason that whenever there's a news story involving a teacher we get told how many years teaching experience they've had - it pads out the story.