“Getting Captain Kirk out of the cockpit” was one way this movement was described and it involved making these guys follow goddamn procedural checklists.
the "DEI pilots" thing is not only untrue, but the opposite of true. The piloting profession in the late 20th century was so dominated by one Guy Type that they had to invent a new kind of training that forced pilots to listen to their first officers so they would stop flying planes into the ground
Right! I can't find the article but there was a good writeup of how the cultural memory of Captain Kirk really doesn't comport with how he actually was on the show.
Look, the 30 minutes I spend making sure that the driver of ever Uber I catch can drive faster and break traffic laws cause they’re different is well worth the 1.5 minutes we shave off the drive time. Planes ought to work the same
WWII training film, 1943, on the importance of the checklist, with the dramatic frame that you're listening to pilots who took the macho seat of the pants approach and died and how they should've followed the checklist.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dZ7...
The "hurry-up boys" were flying a B-24 to March Field... destination of some of my favorite grade-school field trips (it was March AFB then, March Air Reserve Base now.)
also “everyone shut up and do your jobs below 10000 feet”
breach of the sterile cockpit rule is the reason for more than a few cases of controlled flight into terrain
This is a good point, , but people ignore the fact that Captain Kirk always took the advice of his officers and wasn't a tyrant.
He even let cadets talk back to him when he was an admiral.
Also, as an unrelated side note -- and total coincidence -- Lt. Ricardo Kirk was a Brazilian Army pilot when he died in an accident the 1920s, the first officer to. He is now the patron of the Brazilian Army Aviation, created in 1987.
As a taxi driver I had a personal regular who was the saddest shitty drunk I ever saw. I only saw once every few weeks.
Reader, he was an airline pilot. Not a former pilot.
We could stand to diversify that occupation a tad.
Yes. CRM, or Crew Resource Management. It is about swallowing your big ass ego and listening, even from someone of lesser status. I honestly think we should teach it in school. Everyone needs it.
Eh, Captain Kirk wasn't as much of a rules breaker as he's known to be, and usually towed to the regulations. It's just the times that he doesn't makes for good TV shows.
When you have 400 people's lives resting on getting everything right in one of the most sophisticated 10 million dollar machines ever built, YOU'RE DAMN WELL GOING TO FOLLOW PROCEDURAL CHECKLISTS because HUMANS FUCK UP IN EVERY WAY IMAGINABLE.
