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Originally Posted by Don Ro
I had the occasion to speak with B-52 pilots while in the AF...one told me about how stringent were the procedures, etc. Of course, I knew that.
Told me something about circuit breakers that were pulled in commercial airliners.
If the system was redundant, they'd fly anyway.
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I would be very surprised if that were true. I know a lot of airline pilots that are aging out and none of them has related anything remotely like that - redundancy means the system is on the critical safety path. I'm not flying with ANY popped circuit breaker! Nor are they. They get to the accident first, btw.
My comment was more related to the devolution of pilots in the airliner food chain and how it has impacted great people coming in the door.
That topic is very lively among my commercial pilot friends, all of them senior Captains with big carriers.