Germanwing Reportage Getting it Wrong

co·pi·lot
ˈkōˌpīlət/
noun
noun: co-pilot

1.
a second pilot in an aircraft.

verb
verb: co-pilot

1.
act as the copilot of (an aircraft).

Only the captain is allowed to fly ever !! ;D

I haven't heard any of what the author is talking about. I have primarily been watching CNN, and they have been portraying the situation as one pilot being in the cockpit, and one being locked outside. And, they have been emphasizing how much training and scrutiny the First Officer, and the Captain, need to go through to fly for that airline.

We have now had three horrific airplane accidents that occurred, or the chain of events that led up to these accidents were initiated, with the aircraft captain (pilot) out of his seat. The recent Germanwings accident or intentional accident occurred because the captain needed to use the toilet 28 minutes after takeoff. I find it hard to understand why an adult male cannot make a short flight without having to use the onboard toilet. Every airport has restrooms adjacent to the boarding area. If that is not sufficient, the onboard toilet can be used prior to takeoff. Once airborne, gut it out until after landing. Especially on a short flight such as this was scheduled to be. If it is necessary for the captain to suffer a little discomfort while waiting to land, so be it. When the captain turns on the seat belt light thus prohibiting the use of the rest rooms by the passengers, we are sometimes required to spend a lot longer than 28 minutes without the use of a toilet.

Yeah. That's what this is really about...

There's an update to this post: The raw tragedy of the Germanwings crash is terrible enough, but the incident has spawned a sideshow of ill-informed and just plain aggravating conversations taking place across the media that somebody needs to address.

Whether it’s on the human factors side of things or on the technical part of flying, much of the talk is misleading. As if air travel weren’t misunderstood enough already.

Oops. There's an "s" missing in that title.

this is so assanine given what happened - no body even pilots care what you posted and said -
NEVER A SINGLE PERSON ALONE IN FLIGHT !!! NEVER and if something as sick as this occurs again , kick in the bathroom - or galley bulkhead and do it fast !!

Seriously? Nearly 150 innocent people are dead, and you're worried about the media getting your title wrong? Anyone with a little common sense knows the media is clueless when it comes to commercial aviation, or any aviation for that matter, and I assure you, is focusing on what really matters in the story: a selfish, deceitful individual without regard for anyone else who hid his psychological problems from the airline and took out a whole plane load of people instead of just killing himself at home. Or how about a cockpit door designed so that NOBODY can open it from the outside?

I used to be a dispatcher for a major regional airline. Almost every time I told someone what I di, they always asked if I work in a control tower talking to the airplanes and telling them where to go. After a while, I'd just laugh it off and ignore it. That's what you need to do. GET OVER YOURSELF!! I wonder how much this pilot/copilot thing will bother you once you move over to the left seat?

Oh, and the book plug at the end of your rant was completely tasteless.

Who would have guessed that the person complaining about being called a co-pilot is a co-pilot. Seriously? BBC may have gotten it wrong, but saying that both pilots have the same experience, which is occasionally true, is definitely not a true statement. Keep working though, you'll make pilot(captain) someday.

Not sure about international titles, but in the US it's Pilot and F.O. anyway (First Officer)