The Guy Who Flew Thousands of Passengers as a Fake Pilot

[TangoWhiskey]

http://gizmodo.com/5540789/the-guy-who-flew-thousands-of-passengers-as-a-fake-pilot

This is not the Catch Me if You Can guy (Frand Abagnale Jr.)... new story.

 

[kyleb]

Actually, he was a real pilot, but didn't have a license. ;-)

 

[TangoWhiskey]

Actually, he was a real pilot, but didn't have a license. ;-)

I'm sure that argument will save him.

 

[wbarnhill]

I'm sure that argument will save him.

Actually it kinda did.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/wor...Thomas-Salme-flies-Air-One-jets-13-years.html

Last month he was fined £1,700 and was banned from flying for 12 months by a Dutch court - which noted that in the entire 13 years, he had never caused an accident.

So about $2500 and no flying for a year.

 

[poadeleted20]

Back many decades ago, Eastern Air Lines had for quite a while a captain who'd been hired with only a PP and nobody every did the paperwork to upgrade him. When someone finally caught onto the situation, they gave him a written test, a flight test, and an ATP, and he finished his career with them.

 

[AuntPeggy]

Both news stories repeat the misspelled "licence". Why?

 

[poadeleted20]

Both news stories repeat the misspelled "licence". Why?

European story using British English, not American, so not misspelled (or misspelt, as they'd say). Like "defence" and "pressurise." Six years in England made me bilingual in both American English and the Queen's.

 

[Ghery]

European story using British English, not American, so not misspelled (or misspelt, as they'd say). Like "defence" and "pressurise." Six years in England made me bilingual in both American English and the Queen's.

I keep getting into that with British colleagues. And one keeps reminding me that they invented the language. I tell him that's good, now I know who to blame for all the inconsistencies in spelling.

 

[Dan Thomas]

I keep getting into that with British colleagues. And one keeps reminding me that they invented the language. I tell him that's good, now I know who to blame for all the inconsistencies in spelling.

English wasn't invented. It's mostly a conglomeration of French, German, Latin, Scandinavian languages and other such sources. I suppose most languages came about through such evolutionary theft, except maybe for Esperanto, the language that was drawn up in the 1880s to become the international common language. Hasn't caught on yet.

Dan

 

[RJM62]

It's often said than England and the United States are two nations divided by a common language.

Many years ago, I drove a taxi part-time to scare up some extra money. I picked up a British guy at JFK one time, and as we were pulling out of the airport he asked me to stop someplace to pick up some "American fags," which he said he preferred to the "British fags."

My odd expression in the rear view mirror prompted him to quickly explain that he meant cigarettes.

-Rich