Shut up and listen, a schizo is flying this plane

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[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Won't be able to get a license. But I predict you'll have some people whining about how the license standards are unfair towards people with disabilities at some point.

I mean someone who is schizo might be perfectly capable of flying the plane 99% of the time. That's what they're going to argue.

It's the 1% of the time they forget their meds and do a suicide by crashing the plane into the ground that will be the problem.

And that has happened before.

[–]no_u 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Yes, though the one or two suicide crashes were not due to schizophrenia (which is a serious chronic mental illness that can be discovered through testing, with the exception of very mild schizophrenia, for which people are sometimes plied with drugs). But there was this case.

[–]Alienhunter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Yeah I'm mostly just worried that you'll get a bunch of idiots whining about how their disability disqualifying them from getting a pilots license constitutes discrimination and that in the long term it could result in some frankly idiotic decisions if bureaucrats or politicians see a loosening of requirements as a good why to ensure an election win. Basic culture war bullshit.

I don't much give a fuck about the programmes to encourage women to become pilots other than thinking them unnecessary wastes of money. No reason why a woman can't or shouldn't be a pilot but I don't see why they need encouragement to be one if they don't want to. I know plenty of women that are scared of driving on the freeway for dumb reasons, but while I think they are being overly paranoid and stupid the last thing I want is to actually encourage them to drive on the freeway since I don't want to share the road with a bunch of inexperienced paranoid drivers.

[–]no_u 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I agree with your first paragraph, and hope that the mental health check isn't downgraded in order to allow those with questionable mental health to be pilots.

Regarding women, they outpace men in academic ability and many of them have flown planes since almost the beginning of manned flight, so I know of no potential disqualification for them.

[–]Alienhunter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There is no reason why a woman can't be a good pilot. I just think a lot of women will not be good pilots. Like if you picked one at random. (And to be fair I think most men probably also wouldn't be good pilots if you picked one at random)

No reason why women should be discouraged from being pilots, but I don't really much like this kind of programme to encourage a specific sex to pursue a career path they typically don't pursue. Way I see it people who want to be pilots should be encouraged to be pilots regardless if they have the ability. There's no reason why we should be specifically looking for pilots who are women because there's no good reason why being a woman makes you a better pilot.

I think that piloting will end up being a male dominated field simply because it requires a lot of traveling and that as a whole the group of all men will be more inclined to travel than the group of all women due to childcare realities skewing towards women being more involved in that roll.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

roll

or pitch or yaw.

If you hadn't written this on autopilot, perhaps you could have picked them right word.