Posted on Apr 5, 2017
Navy instructor pilots refusing to fly over safety concerns; Pence's son affected
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Really money or not you should be able to address this problem without officers deciding they cannot follow orders. But good on them for standing up and being heard.
Navy instructor pilots refusing to fly over safety concerns; Pence's son affected
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LCDR (Join to see) after reading the article, the pilots were doing the right thing by refusing to fly until the problem with the oxygen system in the planes gets addressed.
If the equipment you're using to accomplish the mission is Not Mission Capable and puts lives at risk, flying anyway doesn't make you a good officer, it makes you reckless, cavalier, and stupid. No superior officer in their right mind is going to order the pilots to fly anyway, and if one did, refusing that order is NOT a bad thing.
If the equipment you're using to accomplish the mission is Not Mission Capable and puts lives at risk, flying anyway doesn't make you a good officer, it makes you reckless, cavalier, and stupid. No superior officer in their right mind is going to order the pilots to fly anyway, and if one did, refusing that order is NOT a bad thing.
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I agree but it should not have to come to this CNATRA should have handled this a long time ago. Sounds like the Navy has had this issue with F-18 also. I wonder if the AF has had the same issues and if not why the Navy can't take some lessons from the AF. Or why we even have two services with separate training tracks. Make if purple like medical has shifted to.
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From the comments: "hen more than 100 rated instructor pilots, probably O-3's & O-4's, put their careers at risk & do something like this it's huge. Most people have no idea of how badly morale & faith in command has to deteriorate for a situation to get this bad."
Yep.
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It must be a huge problem for that many pilots to make a decision like that. I wouldn't take their concerns lightly.
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