Pilots Get Fired After a Crash? - Pilot Responds

So to say things were frosty between the two of us for the three-day trip, yeah. Did we stay professional? Absolutely. Could we do our job? No problem. And if you can't, you can always walk off the airplane. And I have done that in the past. I'm not going to share that with this one, but there was one instance where I walked off an airplane and you know, it was the right thing to do, all right? So there's always options that you have. That's a that's a great question. All right. at Jessica Mount 8797. Hi Captain Steve. Uh I will be a first-time flyer and I'm wonder, well congratulations. It's good for you. All right? Uh I'm wondering other than base operations, what are pilots paying the most attention to that I'd never noticed as a passenger. Also, I'm curious how the airplane to it's actually work at altitude. And what happens to all of the um stuff uh after you land on the airplane and I know I'll probably be nervous and definitely spending some time in that room. She's talking about the toilet on the airplane. Okay. Well, let's take that question first and then we'll talk about your first one about what your pilots paying attention to. Um it's a pressure system in the airplane. It's a air pressure that moves the stuff. out of view and down through the system and into a holding tank. Then that holding tank which is full of blue juice sits there for the entirety of the flight when we land and roll out, there is a truck that comes up, hooks up a large hose to it, hits the button on the truck and sucks all that blue juice and all the stuff with it. that's a job that you couldn't pay me enough to do. I hope whoever does it is gets paid a lot to do it because that's a very undesirable job. That's how the stuff gets taken care of. Now, you're wondering about basic things that pilots are paying attention to that you It's usually the smoothness of the ride. When you're encountering a smooth ride, it's usually not by mistake. It's because the pilots have been they researched it before they took off, they picked an altitude that was best and then they're varying their altitude or their air speed to make sure that they give you the smoothest ride in the back. We know that people don't like turbulence. I don't like turbulence as a pilot. And again, we don't want to, you know, upset you or get into something that that could cause any sort of damage to the airplane or you. Uh and so we're always looking for the smoothness ride. That really occupies a great deal of our time. right? I I hope you enjoy your first flight. All right, I got at Gary Flipman 551. Captain Steve, my question is the following? Can you explain a day in the life of a captain? Such as how early do you arrive at the airport? Do you have a room that you report to before a flight? And when you check on weather and