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If a pilot makes a mistake, he'll either die or lose his licence. Either way, his life is ruined.
by api_or_ipa 7y ago
If a pilot makes a mistake, he'll either die or lose his licence. Either way, his life is ruined.
- samirm 7y agoNo it's not. Career =/= life.
- jessaustin 7y agoMost pilots would feel pretty bad if they survived a crash that was fatal to their passengers.
- the_pwner224 7y ago> If a pilot makes a mistake, he'll either die or lose his licence. I have a private pilot license. This is not true at our level, and is very often not the case at the big companies. Everyone makes mistakes; firing all the mistake-makers would not end well. One of the reasons aviation is so safe (excluding corporate coverups like what happened a couple of times with Boeing) is that there is an emphasis on learning and making sure that mistakes never happen again - to you or to other pilots.
- marvin 7y agoOne of the exams for the Light Aircraft Pilot License for sailplanes in Europe has the multiple-choice question "Why is safety improved by submitting an official report of safety-related incidents?", where one option is "because then we can revoke the licenses of unsafe pilots", and another is "because then we can collectively learn from dangerous situations". Spoiler alert, the latter is the correct answer. I can't speak for professional aviation, but I would be very surprised if the safety ethos isn't similar. Ruining a career after a mistake only leads to covering up mistakes. Why the hell is this a systemic problem at all? It's obvious it won't work.