Anonymous wrote:There are near misses all the time and always have been. It's just now they're all over the media and the internet. You just didn't hear about them as much years ago.

I have no problem getting on a plane today.

I was in a near miss like that at LAX a number of years ago but it never got covered in the media. I could read all the parking and rental car signs out the window and was waiting for the landing bump when our plane accelerated like mad and we took off skywards. After 5 minutes, the pilot came on the air and said "sorry about that folks, there was another plane on the runway".

I guess these days everyone has a camera in their pockets to document it, but not then.

Has anyone seen the endeavor air tik tok page. Full of ridiculous girl power stuff nothing talking about safety or their training standards. These are the kind of people they want to attract to fly the planes.

Nope. This changes nothing for me. DH flies all the ime for work (4 flights in the last week and a half) and I’m not at all worried

Also very nervous to fly.

No, I’m really nervous about flying right now. I’ve got a few flights planned this year and dreading them

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Anonymous wrote:There are near misses all the time and always have been. It's just now they're all over the media and the internet. You just didn't hear about them as much years ago.

I have no problem getting on a plane today.

Not a pilot but the incursion at MDW seemed VERY close. Didn’t look like a mile from impact. Looked more like a quarter mile.

In the context of everything the past month, this looks to be an atypical and alarming pattern.

It was a very near miss. A private jet got into the wrong airspace but the Southwest pilot saw it and swerved around. Air traffic control immediately told the private plane they were in the wrong place. That pilot should lose his license.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/25/us/chicago-midway-airport-near-miss-planes

And now the shadow president is poised to obtain a $2 billion contract with the FAA so that his Starlink can take over the FAA's communication system - what could possibly go wrong?

Anonymous wrote:There are near misses all the time and always have been. It's just now they're all over the media and the internet. You just didn't hear about them as much years ago.

I have no problem getting on a plane today.

Not a pilot but the incursion at MDW seemed VERY close. Didn’t look like a mile from impact. Looked more like a quarter mile.

In the context of everything the past month, this looks to be an atypical and alarming pattern.

There are near misses all the time and always have been. It's just now they're all over the media and the internet. You just didn't hear about them as much years ago.

I have no problem getting on a plane today.

Another near miss, this time at Chicago Midway.

Bump

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Anonymous wrote:Even a couple of years ago, Lindsey Graham’s proposal to increase pilot numbers by reducing the required 1,500 hours of flight time for certification scared me about how Republicans would handle aviation when unchecked.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/10/1116650102/proposals-would-ease-standards-raise-retirement-age-to-address-pilot-shortage

No thanks, I’ll take my life over delay inconvenience alleviation. But DEI, right? 🙄

You really need to read up on aviation. There is a STRONG argument that the 1500 hour requirement (which is very new in the grand scheme of things) actually reduced safety by creating a pilot shortage, leading to a proliferation of pilot schools where students flew around the pattern for 1500 hours instead of the airlines getting them early and training in the real world. The restricted ATP helped with that, but not by much. But whatever helps you hate the right, yeah?

- former NTSB and FAA employee, masters in aviation safety, ATP, etc.

Dear former NTSB and FAA employee, masters in aviation safety, ATP, etc or any other individual who works in air travel:

Given all of the firings in the last few weeks and the general chaos we are seeing, I’m assuming that the airline safety record under prior administrations isn’t really relevant to today’s safety, correct?

In other words, it seems like we are really dealing with a completely different paradigm right now, one which sows miscommunication/chaos, removes much needed FAA workers and imposes extreme stress under the illusion of efficiency.

I would think that the combination of all those factors would create inherently unsafe conditions for flying. Do you agree?

Anonymous wrote:Even a couple of years ago, Lindsey Graham’s proposal to increase pilot numbers by reducing the required 1,500 hours of flight time for certification scared me about how Republicans would handle aviation when unchecked.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/10/1116650102/proposals-would-ease-standards-raise-retirement-age-to-address-pilot-shortage

No thanks, I’ll take my life over delay inconvenience alleviation. But DEI, right? 🙄

You really need to read up on aviation. There is a STRONG argument that the 1500 hour requirement (which is very new in the grand scheme of things) actually reduced safety by creating a pilot shortage, leading to a proliferation of pilot schools where students flew around the pattern for 1500 hours instead of the airlines getting them early and training in the real world. The restricted ATP helped with that, but not by much. But whatever helps you hate the right, yeah?

- former NTSB and FAA employee, masters in aviation safety, ATP, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:No. I’m waiting until impeached and removed.
My concern now is I have a relative flying in on March 13 who may be stranded here if govt shutdown on 14th. Will trains run? Just not planes due to tsa?

Transportation will likely be normal for several days after the start of a shutdown.

In previous shutdowns it was not affected. I don’t recall it ever shutting down except after 9/11.

ATCs eventually started calling in sick during one of Trump's shutdowns.

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Anonymous wrote:No, already switched one of our trips to drive instead.

How logical.

How data based.

Enough data for me. It's my life.

Driving is still far more dangerous. It would be even if there were a crash like the DCA one every week.