Within the Season 2 finale of Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal, the comic examines flaws in business airline security resulting from co-pilots being afraid to talk as much as their superiors. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has since pushed again towards his findings in an announcement pointing to required coaching for all airline crewmembers, however Fielder isn’t shopping for it.
“The Federal Aviation Administration requires all airline crewmembers (pilots and flight attendants) and dispatchers to finish Crew Useful resource Administration coaching,” reads the FAA’s assertion to CNN. The federal government company additionally mentioned it wasn’t seeing information to help Fielder’s declare about communication points resulting in airplane accidents.
Whereas showing on the information community to debate the sequence, Fielder cited his personal expertise of getting licensed to fly a business 737 jet to reply, “That’s dumb. They’re dumb.”
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He continued, “Right here’s the problem: I educated to be a pilot. I’m a 737 pilot. I went via the coaching. The coaching is somebody reveals you a PowerPoint slide saying, ‘If you’re a co-pilot and the captain does one thing improper, you’ll want to converse up about it.’ That’s all. That’s the coaching, and so they discuss some crashes that occur, however they don’t do something that makes it stick emotionally.”
Watch the phase under.
As proven in The Rehearsal, Fielder spent a month in Henderson, Nevada coaching to turn into “the least-experienced individual licensed to fly a 737 in North America.” This expertise allowed him to discover protected communication within the cockpit after the present hypothesized that a number of accidents have resulted from co-pilots being afraid to talk as much as captains with their considerations.
After a sequence of social simulations, Fielder efficiently flew a real-life 737 stuffed with “passengers” (paid actors) for over two hours and landed it efficiently. Learn our evaluation of the finale right here.