Flight For Justice!
Flight For Justice!
It’s out!!!
Your wait is over, folks! The latest installment in pilot-author Karlene Petitt’s “Flight For” series!
And, boy, is it a doozie!
I had the great good fortune of receiving an advanced copy of Karlene’s latest novel, and following is a review I wrote for her.
An excerpt from this review appears in her novel.
As a pilot with 40 years in the airline industry, I’ve seen some serious changes—some good, some bad. Advancements in technology and evolution in Crew Resource Management (CRM) have improved safety on the flight deck exponentially.
But, one area of concern keeps myself and other “old school” pilots, such as pilot-author Karlene Petitt, up at night: the direction of pilot training.
Like me, Ms. Petitt earned her wings in an era when the pilot candidate was expected to virtually memorize the flight manual on any given plane.
The pilot could draw the electrical system blindfolded, find and push the Bus Isolation Switch in a black cockpit, and tell you off the top of one’s head the max speed for a cracked cockpit window.
These days, not so much.
Yo, Hey!
O’l Cap’n Aux wrote me some books, too!
Flight For Justice!
Train to...Proficiency?
“Train to proficiency” has become the norm.
Get a pilot “just good enough,” then cut them loose. Red light goes on, push a button, get a banana.
Or, at least, that’s what it feels like to us old timers.
Ms. Petitt has dedicated her professional aviation life to calling attention to just this issue.
Regardless of where your opinion falls on the Pilot Training School of Thought spectrum, the fact that airline flight training has been reduced to the lowest common denominator cannot be ignored. This may indeed vastly reduce the average flight training footprint, and increase schoolhouse efficiency. But, does this minimalist approach do anything to uphold safety? Or, rather, as some pilots such as the author portend, reduce safety margins to near-dangerous levels, all while FAA bureaucrats look the other way?
Has Minimalist Training Compromised Safety?
The question should be asked if management is shortchanging pilot training with a singular goal—to ultimately replace the pilot with automation.
That is the main theme of Ms. Petitt’s “Flight For” series. She aims to present to the general reader, through entertaining and dramatic fiction, this most critical and contemporary
of topics.
Flight For Justice!
The Plot So Far
In pursuit of safety, Captain Darby Bradshaw was subjected
to an abusive psychiatric evaluation and fought her way back to the flight deck.
Now in pursuit of justice, she uncovers how far airline management traveled to oppose safety.
This novel has a flavor of an aviation legal thriller—with the potential safety compromise in pursuit of a buck that is forever the temptation for airline CEOs the world ‘round.
Conclusion
Read this for entertainment, but also as a cautionary tale.
As Ms. Petitt has always intimated in her writing, the truth is out there—and frightfully closer to nonfiction than one cares to realize.
Visit Karlene’s Blog, Flight to Success, and read more about her latest thriller, Flight For Justice!
Link: https://karlenepetitt.blogspot.com/2024/02/flight-for-justice.html
Flight For Justice!
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