Ethics

`One thing aviation and many other industries have in common is that they have been advanced by war. An example of this is during World War II when Nazi Germany made the first jet powered fighter aircraft. The Messerschmitt Me 262. More recently one of the advancements of aviation has been through the use of military drones, which have now created a civilian market for drones and other UAV's. GPS and radar are tools that pilots use pretty much everyday and they were created by the military and now they are a part of everyday aviation.      With all of that being said Terrorism is another form of warfare. Looking back over time hijacking has been a form of warfare that has been used where someone will demand that the pilot's fly them some where else, demand money, and or physically take over controls of the aircraft. The first reported hijacking in history occurred in 1931 in Peru. Armed revolutionaries demanded that a Pan Am Pilot fly them to another city, the pilot ...

Currently, pilots need 1,500 hours to get their ATP. Now there are a few exceptions but for the most part and  for the sake of this blog we will use 1,500 hours. The FAA and the United States Congress made this the law of the land after the 2009 Colgan Air Crash in Buffalo New York (Steven, 2023). The reason I bring this up as a question of ethics is that the 1,500 hour rule is nothing more than an honor system. Flight training is expensive and it takes time. The only thing that verifies your hours is a pencil, a logbook, and each person's personal integrity that they only write down the amount of hours that they actually have and only log their flights. Over the years a term has been made called a "Pencil Whipper Pilot" which is someone who takes their pencil and fills out their logbook without actually have flown those corresponding flights. As ADSB gets more and more integrated that may potentially be a line of defense against this as there will be a record that the pl...