Ferrari Mailing List: Re: "Look Who Is Trying to Take Firearms Away" [Ferrari Digest, Vol 32, Issue 27

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Not ever having been accused of being an "Obama Change Supporter" I do  have 
to say on this point there is some need to agree not with his means, but  with 
the policy of removing firearms from the cockpit.
 
Having graduated from a number of academies and schools, not the least  
applicable of which in this case is the National Transportation Board (NTSB)  
Aircraft Accident and Advanced Accident Investigation Course and co-authoring  
the 
then U.S. Army Safety Center's Course on Aircraft Fire and Explosion  
Investigations, being retired from the Federal agency that often misleads and  
misapplies sanctions as well as misinterpreting statistics and studies, but in  
the 
old days was full of "barrel suckers" and other firearms experts I think  that 
the original idea of arming airline pilots, as well as being an experience  
(albeit significantly less experienced than Clyde with only about 6,000 hrs of  
flight time including a mutually enjoyable tour in Southeast Asia and  37 
years as rated Military Aviator and a licensed Commercial Pilot with  both 
Fixed 
and Rotary Wing ratings  including Instrument Ratings in  both categories and a 
type rating or two)  was a fiasco and simply a  "knee-jerk" (emphasis on 
"jerk") reaction to 911 as was much that is law today,  see the USA Patriot Act 
for an example. The job of the pilot(s) is to safely fly  the airplane and not 
to convert the cockpit into the OK Corral either  voluntarily or involuntarily. 
Safety in a commercial airliner begins and ends at  the cockpit door. Whether 
it be air marshals, or improvements in the  construction, delay and 
durability of that ingress/egress to the cockpit keeping  the potential 
invader, the 
hijacker of any stripe individual or group  terrorist(s) the only truly 
successful strategy is to keep them outside of the  cockpit. If you need an 
armed 
individual in the cockpit, which IMNSHO is a bad  idea in any event, perhaps it 
is 
time to resurrect the third seat and put an air  marshal in there with the 
flight deck crew. Maybe this would be a good job for  retired Federal agents, 
who could not only get paid for being there but also  getting some free travel 
as a perk <G>.
 
There is a complete dearth of examination and study as to the effects of  
distraction in the cockpit, including the effects upon crew coordination which  
is the crux of all successful flight operations where more than one rated pilot 
 is required for the operation of the aircraft in question, of armed conflict 
and  the redirection of attention of a primary crew member in a conflict 
situation.  If two pilots were not required to operate the aircraft under 
normal 
conditions  let alone the elevated status of conflict in the cockpit one would 
think that  the airlines would be lobbying to eliminate the second seat in 
Part 131  operations as they did the position of Flight Engineer in 
transportation  aircraft?
 
Dispute and conflict in an airliner is best resolved when it is not allowed  
to progress past the "passenger and cabin crew as hostages" situation. In the  
worst case possible someone qualified in the operation of the specific type 
of  aircraft in question must remain alive for even the most minimally 
acceptable  resolution of the issues.
 
Dr. Steve
 
 
In a message dated 3/19/2009 11:41:44 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
ferrari-request [at] ferrarilist.com writes:

The  Obama administration is taking steps quietly to shut down the  program
>> that qualifies commercial airline pilots to carry firearms  in jetliner

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Dr. Stephen B. Spies, CES,  CFI
Director, Forensic Sciences Laboratory
Explosives Engineering  Technologies
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