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- taurus12...
When you witness airline executives recording commercials about their intent to have x percent of pilots look a certain way, when the general population is only a fraction of x percent promoting this whole philosophy of selecting candidates using criteria that have nothing to do... To the specific thing about the FAA, it's not that the funding issues are making them do a bad job, it's that the job is necessarily scope limited, so they have to push back and cancel flights when the staff is too short. So the risk is delays, not crashes.... i agree with the general premise here but the example is not a good one. Sully and his co-pilot both said that Hollywood invented the roasting to add drama and the reality wasn't like that at all.... - xander...