So this helicopter pilot who crashed in Manhattan yesterday had 8,000 hours of flight time and was a professional pilot for hire, but wasn't instrument rated? How could that even happen? I always thought it was a requirement for commercial pilots. I would have also thought it would be an insurance requirement. People don't always play by the rules, though, as we know.
Part of the answer is clearly being employed as an aerial chauffeur by a real estate guy, rather than an actual aviation firm, but even there I'm surprised they could insure the chopper, given how frequently it appears to have been used and the magnitude of potential liability. It makes me wonder if he was flying in violation of their coverage.
Regarding the homophobic assaults on a London bus that was discussed two pages back, one of those attacked asks a series of very provocative (in the academic sense of word) questions about the response to it:- https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ge-media-white
That article will get a lot of defensive reactions, I'm sure. I know I was like that at first. But I'll try and back away from that and understand what she says. I think she may be making a series of very good difficult points here.
Regarding the homophobic assaults on a London bus that was discussed two pages back, one of those attacked asks a series of very provocative (in the academic sense of word) questions about the response to it:- https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ge-media-white
That article will get a lot of defensive reactions, I'm sure. I know I was like that at first. But I'll try and back away from that and understand what she says. I think she may be making a series of very good difficult points here.
She is fucking awesome. A lot of those points needed to be made, but only she could make them.
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