I just saw a movie starring Dennis Quaid where he is the father of two girls and he and the family find themselves at the helm of a King Air because the pilot dies of a heart attack. I noticed right from the git go that one of the controllers was a black dude, another controller was a black female and the guy that talk's him down was a Mexican. It was a true story and I said to myself...I bet all these people involved in this ordeal were white males? Sure enough...at the end of the movie they showed all the real people who took part getting this guy down and they were all white males! I was just disgusted!
Also, I have been a pilot flying corporate jets for 30+ years and at the beginning of my career taught people how to fly for a few years as well. Let me tell you, the way that stupid movie portrayed how they talked him down was absolutely ridiculous on its face! I was embarrassed for whoever came up with the script. They obviously had no idea what really took place to talk this guy down in that King Air! The Mexican guy was in his garage being talked through it with his girlfriend using a makeshift cockpit using crates and other items they found in the garage. If this is really how this went down every controller should be embarrassed...but it would never happen that way at all. First off, it would be a controller with flight experience or they would bring in a King Air instructor to talk the guy down and all he would have to have is a poster of the cockpit in front of him (which is simple to get online) if the King Air pilot hadn't flown in a while. Otherwise he wouldn't even need a poster really...
All the good movie writers got cancelled. I don’t know how old these people are that are writing these scripts anymore. It’s just not convincing. Maybe AI has been writing scripts for a while.
I just saw a movie starring Dennis Quaid where he is the father of two girls and he and the family find themselves at the helm of a King Air because the pilot dies of a heart attack. I noticed right from the git go that one of the controllers was a black dude, another controller was a black female and the guy that talk's him down was a Mexican. It was a true story and I said to myself...I bet all these people involved in this ordeal were white males? Sure enough...at the end of the movie they showed all the real people who took part getting this guy down and they were all white males! I was just disgusted!
Also, I have been a pilot flying corporate jets for 30+ years and at the beginning of my career taught people how to fly for a few years as well. Let me tell you, the way that stupid movie portrayed how they talked him down was absolutely ridiculous on its face! I was embarrassed for whoever came up with the script. They obviously had no idea what really took place to talk this guy down in that King Air! The Mexican guy was in his garage being talked through it with his girlfriend using a makeshift cockpit using crates and other items they found in the garage. If this is really how this went down every controller should be embarrassed...but it would never happen that way at all. First off, it would be a controller with flight experience or they would bring in a King Air instructor to talk the guy down and all he would have to have is a poster of the cockpit in front of him (which is simple to get online) if the King Air pilot hadn't flown in a while. Otherwise he wouldn't even need a poster really...
All the good movie writers got cancelled. I don’t know how old these people are that are writing these scripts anymore. It’s just not convincing. Maybe AI has been writing scripts for a while.
Good point!