StewartGilligan@lemmy.world to MemesEnglish · 1 year agoMommy, look, I'm a pilot...lemmy.worldimagemessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1541arrow-down15
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minus-squarenieceandtows@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·edit-21 year agoTo be fair, ‘how to fly an airplane’ is different from ‘how airplanes fly’.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agoTrue, but at Virgin Airlines, the engineers and mechanics wear the same uniforms as the pilots. It’s wasteful and highly confusing, but Branson insists.
minus-squarenieceandtows@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoThat sounds dumb. You would think you need to be able to identify the relevant and necessary people quickly during and emergency.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoWell Branson IS famously a flashy idiot so 🤷
minus-squareLlewellynlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoIt sounds engineers and mechanics are praised this way as high as pilots, though?
minus-squareStewartGilligan@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoHe be tryna figure out the autopilot.
To be fair, ‘how to fly an airplane’ is different from ‘how airplanes fly’.
True, but at Virgin Airlines, the engineers and mechanics wear the same uniforms as the pilots. It’s wasteful and highly confusing, but Branson insists.
That sounds dumb. You would think you need to be able to identify the relevant and necessary people quickly during and emergency.
Well Branson IS famously a flashy idiot so 🤷
It sounds engineers and mechanics are praised this way as high as pilots, though?
He be tryna figure out the autopilot.