The next time a cop tells me their job is really dangerous...
(Source: US Bureau of Labor and Statistics 2013)
“Yeah? I’m at number three on the list.”
The More You Know. Hahaha.
What’s a Flight engineer?
As an old instructor used to say, “The guy going north in a westbound plane.”
I could never, ever do that job.
Better/easier communication and interaction with the Captain in the left seat.
More importantly, it allows the Captain to more easily see the Engineers's panel. Same reason you rarely see circuit breakers on the left side of the cockpit.
Easier to slap the FO in the back of the head.
My palms are sweating just *thinking about* being strapped to a giant lightning rod at 1900 feet!! No way!I've been to about 1900 feet, but was much younger and fit back then. Was amazed at how easy it was to leave fingerprints in steel too.....
The chart is not a joke, it's a summary of statistics by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. It's also not a particularly accurate representation of danger, risk, or death due to complacency or accidents compared to deaths due to malice.
It’s what airplanes had before computers. A much harder training program than actually flying IMOWhat’s a Flight engineer?
yeah, the lady doth protest too much on this one. Gives credence to the kind of trope about cops as a collective being short-fused and more prone to physically assault others for feeling disrespected, family especially, to the degree where they endemically gravitate to the job's legal allowance to put their hands on other people routinely in the first place. Cops need to be reminded that dissing them is not a crime, much to their chagrin. This thread seems peculiarly fitting to this theme, it seems.
Look, I've buried some friends too in the line of my duty, with anxious family members waiting back home to hear it wasn't me. Every day my wife recognizes it's a tough job and stuff goes sideways. I'm fortunate she chooses to stick with me and focus on living together, vice obsessing about what could be. So we do understand and are sympathetic to the notion of vocational risk some first responders face. So come on now, let's pop the speed brakes here and take a deep breath. We're all innocent in Shawshank. It is possible to be critical of the collective and institutional deficits we claim membership to, without taking it as a personal affront. The latter reaction merely supports the very trope being contested in the first place.
Now can we all do like Rodney and just get along?
Well I have worn a badge as well so I can speak from your side of the “thin blue line”. Much of what @denverpilot expresses is true. I’m sure based on how you represent yourself on this board those sentiments do not apply to you personally. Unfortunately the state of law enforcement today doesn’t give you the benefit of an average citizen knowing what they are dealing with anymore.
