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The best airline pilot lands the plane the same as the worst.
by flerchin 3y ago
The best airline pilot lands the plane the same as the worst.
- tartuffe78 3y agoWith a few notable outliers...
- digitalsushi 3y ago99.999% of the time I agree with you.
- rmbyrro 3y agoSure, just the integrity of the plane after landing vary sometimes.
- lnxg33k1 3y agoYeah the best developer uses the same compiler of the worst, guess the difference is not what you do at the end, but how you manage the trip, and how you write code before
- itsoktocry 3y ago>The best airline pilot lands the plane the same as the worst Have you considered there's more to being a pilot than landing the plane?
- flerchin 3y agoPlenty more, but the economic impact to the airline is the same from any individual pilot.
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- chii 3y agoNot really. The worst pilot only lands once, and never again.
- Ekaros 3y agoNow what qualifies as landing?
- II2II 3y agoCollect a large number of pilots, divide them into two pools based upon their performance (low and high). Which pool do you think will incur more expenses to the airline? Keep in mind that some of those costs range from reducing consumer confidence (poor landings or damaged cargo), to planes requiring more maintenance (increased costs of maintenance, planes taken out of service more often), to planes being put out of commission (regardless of whether everyone walks away or not). A lot of people seem to be measuring value in landings per day, widgets per minute, lines of code per week without acknowledging that the quality of work does have an impact.
- flerchin 3y agoThere's only acceptable piloting and not. There's no pilot that makes the airline 10x more per flight.
- wil421 3y agoThe best airline pilots get the best routes for the best airlines and are mostly retired military. At the other end you have cargo pilots and regional flights that carry a brand of major airline but are operated by a different company. Look at salary differences. https://www.thepilotguys.com/blog/airline-pilot-salary https://www.thepilotguys.com/blog/airline-pilot-salary
- AptExtrapolatio 3y ago>The best airline pilots get the best routes for the best airlines and are mostly retired military. Curious about this. I'd have thought going the civilian route of flight school should put one on equal footing on this regard? Or are you saying that just statistically more long-tenured pilots are retired military?
- flerchin 3y agoIn general, these are due to union rules. The union decides what the compensation is, and it's largely by seniority. The airline makes no more money from retired military pilots than they do from any other pilot.