🧵Airline captain. 15-20 years somewhere..
Age 50. Senior. Life is good..
mortgage.. boat.. kids in college…. Making legit good coin finally! the early days was making minimum wage flying Saab 340s.
15 years till mandatory retirement.
💨Poof… Company ceases.
Now what?
Exactly correct. Insurance pays out if there is a accident, the FAA dos not.
Consider the FAA and Insurance requirements as two separate sets of requirements.
So much of aviation is driven by insurance
Most of the hour requirements to fly certain aircraft aren't there for legal reasons (ATP aside)
They are there because insurance says you need X amount of experience
Had a client who was delivering a couple airplanes to Pakistan in the coming weeks (common mission for this client).
Insurance co just withdrew their quotes.
Had a client who was delivering a couple airplanes to Pakistan in the coming weeks (common mission for this client).
Insurance co just withdrew their quotes.
Y'ALL THIS STORY AND THE ATC AUDIO IS INCREDIBLE!!!!
Yesterday at Rocky Mountain Metro Airport in Denver the pilot of a Beechcraft King Air became incapacitated and went NORDO with ATC but his aircraft was equipped with Garmin's new Emergency Autoland feature.
Well, not only did the plane land itself saving the pilots life, but it began transmitting on frequency to ATC controllers and other aircraft in the traffic pattern with position updates and eta to the runway.
Listen to this audio. Link below. Also this was the first real world use of this Garmin feature.
In case you're wondering what it looks like when the steel cables on your hangar's bi-fold doors snap while you're moving your brand new King Air out of it.
@thesamparr $3.5m jet on fire. Burns to the ground. No coverage and client calls me after and ask if he can buy coverage now. Says “so you’re telling me I made the worst financial decision of my life?” - I didn’t reply.
Most people think claims are always fatal or total losses.
Fun fact…the smaller, frequent claims, like running into another aircraft, cost insurers WAY more money on average every year.
This is how the ground collision between two Delta Air Lines regional jets occurred Wednesday night at the intersection of Taxiways M and A at LaGuardia Airport (LGA), New York.
As per Delta Air Lines, a "low-speed collision" occurred between Endeavor Air Flight 5047, arriving from Charlotte, North Carolina, and Endeavor Flight 5155, which was scheduled to depart for Roanoke, Virginia.
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