A lot of current and former pilots are members of STARRS. Thanks for being “aging boomers immune to the Kool-Aid” (see below). Here are some stories of interest regarding DEI and flying:
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is actively recruiting workers who suffer “severe intellectual” disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency’s website.
“Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring,” the FAA’s website states.
“They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism.”
The initiative is part of the FAA’s “Diversity and Inclusion” hiring plan, which says “diversity is integral to achieving FAA’s mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond.” . . . (read more on Fox News)
https://www.faa.gov/jobs/diversity_inclusion
Dan Bongino talked about the dangerous mix of DEI hiring and flying airplanes. Here’s a short clip or watch the whole thing below.
Never let anyone dismiss you as an old white man. “The Boomers really are our thin veneer of civilization.”
Wokeism Is About To Get Someone Killed (starts at 14:20 mark)
Babylon Bee stories are SUPPOSED to be a joke, not guidance for the federal government:
In Major Win For Diversity, Airline Hires Blind Pilot (Babylon Bee)
Spirit Airlines has hammered yet another nail into the coffin of ableism by hiring the world’s first blind commercial airline pilot. Flight 2047 from Orlando to Saint Louis is set to be the first vision-impaired flight. The co-pilot will reportedly wear a blindfold for the duration of the flight out of solidarity with its blind captain.
According to sources, Isaac “Fuselage” Bartimaeus dreamed of being a pilot ever since someone described to him what planes look like. The rookie pilot, who has been blind since birth, earned a pilot’s license after spending two years studying theoretical flight. Due to his condition, he was not permitted to fly a plane as part of his schooling. Spirit Airlines waived the requisite 1,500 hours of flight time as a way of accommodating his disability. . . . .
Watch YouTube Short clip of comedian talking about the United Air Lines President saying he is prioritizing diversity:
https://youtube.com/shorts/KZ_rQ3Lt8jY?si=LpCejbSewHGs7Uai
coming soon… pic.twitter.com/Ghmx1meDLN
— APOCTOZ (@Apoctoz) January 16, 2024
YIKES. United Air Lines CEO is a 1988 USAFA grad.
CEO of @united says he takes race and gender into account when hiring and laments that there’s too many white males in the airline industry. pic.twitter.com/NSEPzAuqZS
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 15, 2024
“We have committed that 50 percent of the classes will be women or people of color.”
This is Scott Kirby, the CEO of @united. He likes to dress up in drag. United hired a drag queen to be their CEO and now United has turned their focus to incorporating drag into their business and sponsoring drag shows. https://t.co/Hhzd5o6SyN pic.twitter.com/9tqkjTfVvs
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 15, 2024
Meet Maya Tallman, a man pretending to be a woman who’s a pilot and runs a newly formed DEI Committee for @united
He sent a letter to employees about how excited he is to incorporate DEI into @united
Pray United is focused on safety just as much as they’re focused on diversity pic.twitter.com/d7mU4rkzlf
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 15, 2024
Do you want to fly in an airplane where they prioritized DEI hiring over your safety? That is actually happening. https://t.co/FcTyzZD0uW
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 10, 2024
Former FAA safety expert addresses airline DEI controversy, viral United comments (Fox Business, 17 JAN 24)
Becoming a commercial airline pilot should be based on merit, not skin color or gender, for the safety of passengers, according to aviation expert Kyle Bailey. “Diversity really has nothing to do with safe travel,” Bailey said.
Bailey, a former Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) safety team representative, said the FAA has implemented policies to satisfy the left.
The FAA’s “Diversity and Inclusion” hiring plan says “diversity is integral to achieving FAA’s mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond.”
. . . . United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby went viral this week after remarks he made in 2021 about the company’s diversity initiatives resurfaced. During an interview with Axios on HBO, Kirby said the company was committed to ensuring 50% of their graduating pilot classes would be women or people of color.
Bailey doesn’t believe such quotas are a “good idea,” and feels pilots should be selected based on merit alone.
“It’s basically all a matter of flight time, your credentials, your background, how much flight experience you have, and also your training,” Bailey said, adding that Kirby’s comments were likely simply an effort to drum up some positive attention from the media.
Bailey said that a large percentage of commercial airline pilots began flying when they were as young as 16 years old, so the majority of them have been extremely passionate about the profession from a young age. He said it’s “very hard” for anyone to get the 1,500 hours of flight time required to sit in the cockpit of a commercial airliner, and it’s particularly difficult for women and anyone from a lower-income background.
“Regardless of what proposed hiring practices are put into place, the bottom line is… piloting is basically a male occupation. You don’t find little girls when they’re 10 years old saying, ‘Hey, I want to be an airline pilot,’ or playing with little model airplanes or flying model airplanes. It’s pretty much a male game, like it or not,” Bailey said.
“As the minorities go, it would be great to get more into the cockpit,” he continued. “But still, in these inner cities the money isn’t there to fund these individuals.” Some airlines have programs to help out less-privileged candidates, but even funding the training for a few hundred potential pilots won’t put a dent in an industry that needs thousands of experienced pilots. As a result, Bailey explained that hiring pilots based on anything other than merit “will reduce the safety levels” of the airline. . . . .
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