BREAKING: I’ve obtained internal footage of senior officials at the FAA’s Flight Program Operations division — which is responsible for all aspects of aircraft operations — workshopping a plan to reduce the number of white males in aviation. The footage begins with FAA acting deputy chief operating officer Angela McCullough saying more workers need to go from “ramp to cockpit,” meaning she wants to see more baggage handlers become airline pilots.
It gets worse.
A second source — a pilot I’ve confirmed works at Delta — tells me that Delta has recently promoted a trans-identifying pilot who repeatedly received bad reviews from captains. According to the source, this pilot “would likely not have” survived probation if he weren’t trans. […] This industry-wide embrace of overt mental illness afflicts every aspect of aviation. Another source told me that his job is to design advanced military systems, but he’s constantly side-tracked by DEI proposals like “gender inclusive seatbelts.”
You think that’s bad? Imagine if this same shit is going on with military aircraft.
If I can’t drive there, I’m not going.
I’m beginning to identify with John Madden … a famous no-flyer
That’s been my policy since 2016. The doors have never blown off my car mid-trip.
I wonder how many people these policies will kill on the ground. Planes crashing into buildings kill people.
Uh-huh!
https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ato/leadership/mccullough
That a picture of her during basic training?
“Angela is an expert at reinventing programs and processes to optimize their outcomes.”
One of those.
When you have all the pre-requisites there’s no need for basic training.
BUT… does she know anything about planes & flying?
She appears to have gone straight from the tarmac to the executive suite.
These people’s Peter Principles will kill hundreds if not thousands.
no no no no no.
there is an ‘instinct’ for flying like a musical ‘talent’ or painter an intrinsic quality whereby the endowed has an itch to get a pilot’s license.
part of it is akin to the ‘Sculley’ effect. unheard of coolness in the cockpit.
if, IF *IF* it be this ‘knack’ resides strongly in the demographic ‘white male’ whom egad, INVENTED the profession, and those now and in future get ‘ejected’ from the cockpit because
of
DEI
then
we
are
royally
screwed blued and tattooed as my shop teacher expressed nearing 6 decades past.
personally, l have had a desire to fly a plane, am very comfortable in a plane and once parachuted from one, but never pursued because l also felt l lacked ‘something’.
then l read Tom Wolfe’s ‘Right Stuff’ and had my explanation.
DEI needs to go the way of lobotomies.
I think that misunderstands what she said.
She is saying that the glorious blessings of diversity must be enforced at all levels, from ramp to cockpit — not that individuals should graduate from ramp to cockpit!
Matt Walsh’s interpretation is an unwarranted leap.
If she said -“more workers need to go from ‘ramp to cockpit,’” then Walsh interpreted her exactly right. There’s no other way to interpret that statement.
Yes, if she’d actually said that, it would be a reasonable interpretation… but she didn’t say that. And anyone can clearly see that she didn’t say that just by watching the linked video.
At least Walsh didn’t put that “more workers” part in the quotation marks; it’s nonetheless an unfounded, baseless interpretation.
“She” is still an idiot.
That’s for sure. There’s lots of reasons to bully and demean these people. We don’t need to make anything up.
Interesting point.. This douche nozzle white male has 20 non whites hanging on his ability to do it again tomorrow.. Understand I don’t take notes and I’m not training anybody..
I leave and you could hire 4 morons to replace me and they will still be running at 50% efficiency.. Its not a game and I know what I’m dealing with..
I’m sure that various litigation lawyers’ (ie. Morgan and Morgan) ears will have perked up if this happens. There could be a good payday as with the Boeing 737 MAX fiasco.
Putting Trannies in a Cockpit seems counterintuitive, no?
Cockless pit.
Buddy, yer killin’ me!
They REALLY DON’T want you to fly!!!
Alright….(sigh)….I’ll take one for the team. What in the name of all that is holy is a Gender Inclusive Seat belt?
It pinches neither pussy nor pecker and gently cups boobs.
There is no such thing. They made it up.
Ohhhhhh baby, It’s only a matter of time. You’ll see. A disaster waiting to happen. Then watch the media circle the wagons like they did with Kara Hultgreen.
Tenerife comes to mind.
Rob Schneider re Diversity for Pilots:
https://youtube.com/shorts/KZ_rQ3Lt8jY?si=h-08OlX1Tpq46qj2
Not much point in having the FAA at all anymore, is there?
At First Air we called the baggage handlers ‘cargonians’ as they appeared to be a separate tribe of brutish men unable to follow complex instructions or control their alcohol intake.
I’ve known lots of professional pilots who flew airliners, bush planes, maritime patrol planes, water bombers, the RCAF VIP Challengers, and CCG helicopters and I would guess that most of them have an IQ of 120 or more. There were a couple who were “professional co-pilots” ie they were never going to be captains because they were just not capable of decision making in a crisis but they were still smarter than any ramp rat I’ve ever met.
Aviation has high standards because it saves lives, don’t lower them.
From the FAA website – “Angela holds a Master of Science in Administration from Central Michigan University.”
From CMU website for the course “Prior learning credit for work, training, and life experiences count.”
Ages ago, I did a joke airline recruiting ad for a fictional company, ‘PLUMMET AIRLINES’ (now PLUMMET AEROSPACE). The logo is of a commercial plane on fire and auguring in during a massive thunder and lightning storm, and the tagline is (in ‘ransom demand’ font) “we really make an impact”!!!
I added the most ridiculous recruiting requirements (more like lack of same) I could think of, and how no terrorist would fly in a Plummet aircraft because the pilot could be anywhere from six to sixty, totally blind, and with no flying skills or training at all!!!
It’s kind of disturbing to see real airlines trying to match if not surpass Plummet…!
Ever heard of the band Plummet Airlines?
https://youtu.be/0M1njRvoxWQ?si=Y5cK2vRuFC_ozHTV
Oddly enough, no!!! Not what I consider to be music, and my Plummet Airline is entirely my own invention and completely independent and unrelated to this!
Oh, I believe you, these guys were pretty obscure and a long time ago. I just hoped you might like the song, sorry!
These examples are race- and gender-based discrimination. Congressional Republicans where are you, you worthless, Mayorkas loving pieces of garbage?
The people affected by these civil rights violations need to lawyer up, and make them pay. Sue the government, and the bureaucrats.
Broken record here, McCullough is an ugly black woman who hates white people. I wonder what she sounds like when there are no white men in the meeting? ( I don’t really, I know exactly what she sounds like )