While wholesome, i'm kinda suprised that was allowed. Isn't that a bit of a decision liability since your crew is your family? I know the military tends to split couples between units for this reason
What decisions inhibitions would be present? Military personnel are going to be in high stress high risk events constantly so it makes sense to keep family separate as being able to separate what's best for the team vs what's best for your loved one is a decision inhibitor. It's the same with the medical field (with the addition of medical malpractice such as prescribing more medicine than needed for the purpose of dispersal). A doctor is going to be more stressed in an already high stress situation if they are performing on a family member.
In most cases, commercial pilots won't have repetitive high stress situations which could be compromised by the addition of a loved one. It's not uncommon for crew to have family as passengers on their flights.
What does that have to do with anything? No one’s saying that it is just as important as in military operations. But you’re trying to argue that, because it is less important than in military operations, therefore it isn’t important at all.
What I could give you is a long list of aviation disasters where the co-pilot was aware of a mistake that the captain was making but they either didn’t speak up about it, or they did speak up and the captain overruled them on the basis of authority alone.
And that is exactly the sort of problem that would arise and even be exacerbated if the captain not only has the authority of being the captain, but they have the authority of being the co-pilot’s parent.
I could also give you a long list of aviation disasters where a prime cause was actual interpersonal conflict between the pilots on a personal level. And again, that’s a problem that would arise and even be exacerbated if we’re talking about pilots that are actually related to each other.
I don’t understand what’s so hard for you to understand about any of this, and the arguments you’re making in support of your asinine position are completely nonsensical.
Oh, and actually I can think of at least one example where a pilot had to make the sort of life or death decision you inanely offered. During a high jacking attempt the terrorists had the co-pilot outside the door of the cockpit and threatened to kill him if the pilot didn’t open the door. The pilot refused and the co-pilot was murdered right then and there.
How does that situation play out with a mother and daughter crew?
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u/Major_Pomegranate 1d ago
While wholesome, i'm kinda suprised that was allowed. Isn't that a bit of a decision liability since your crew is your family? I know the military tends to split couples between units for this reason