Support for Armed Pilot Training

[cebeu]

Lawmakers want airline pilots armed

"Congress refuses to gut the one program the Transportation Security Administration has offered to minimize: pilots who pack guns.

The House just passed an amendment in its Homeland Security appropriations bill that would boost funding for armed-pilot training by $10 million. That throws a sharp rebuke at both the TSA and the Obama administration, which proposed chopping financing in half."

[lpgasman]

What if the guns hijacked the plane? Cause guns are evil.

[sniper7]

would be nice.

[asmo]

Why 10 million is needed is beyond me.

[RMAC757]

Firearms, ammo and training are expensive.

Why 10 million is needed is beyond me.

[Sharpienads]

Yeah, but if pilots had guns, what would happen if they snapped and decided to shoot all the passengers?

Joking, of course.

[sniper7]

Yeah, but if pilots had guns, what would happen if they snapped and decided to shoot all the passengers?

Joking, of course.

same question about cops?

same question about someone in the .mil.

Pilots are professionals and no matter what the super scared passengers in the back think and how scared they are about the plane crashing...the pilots up front don't want to crash and die just as much if not more than the people in the back.

[Mazin]

same question about cops?

same question about someone in the .mil.

Pilots are professionals and no matter what the super scared passengers in the back think and how scared they are about the plane crashing...the pilots up front don't want to crash and die just as much if not more than the people in the back.

Say's the guy doing barrel rolls over DIA

[asmo]

Firearms, ammo and training are expensive.

FFDOs buy their own guns and their own ammo..

As for training we've been over this before (lost in the great crash of '11). The only training an FFDO needs:

"The gun is in this little black box. Here is the key. Don't fuck with it until hadji is beating at the door".

[Bailey Guns]

FFDOs buy their own guns and their own ammo..

As for training we've been over this before (lost in the great crash of '11). The only training an FFDO needs:

"The gun is in this little black box. Here is the key. Don't fuck with it until hadji is beating at the door".

Judging from some of your posts in the "Training" forum I'd guess you feel your personal training standards need to be a little higher than this.