{"id":94,"date":"2009-10-26T18:10:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T01:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/letterstofamouspeople\/?p=94"},"modified":"2009-10-26T18:10:34","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T01:10:34","slug":"dear-faa-northwest-airlines-and-the-pilot-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/dear-faa-northwest-airlines-and-the-pilot-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear FAA, Northwest Airlines, and the Pilot Community,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My questions are multitude and I don&#8217;t know where to begin.<\/p>\n<p>1. If you can use a laptop safely in a cockpit to surf the web &#8212; and I&#8217;m assuming if they were checking their schedules, they were online &#8212; then why can&#8217;t we use our cell phones?<\/p>\n<p>2. Why isn&#8217;t there a method for contacting the flight attendants? One of those stupid Air Phones with a number for dialing into it; an attendant with a satellite phone; or one of those cell phones that don&#8217;t really impact air flight at all &#8212; these all seem like options to me.<\/p>\n<p>3. An hour plus and you didn&#8217;t hear beeping? Didn&#8217;t look up? And you call this &#8220;innocuous&#8221;? Really?<\/p>\n<p>4. And for the flight attendants: you didn&#8217;t decide to check on the flight status until you were already an hour past your destination? No one said anything before then? You didn&#8217;t think anything before then? Wow.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, to the pilots, who likely have lost their licenses and their livelihoods, I hope your wives (if you have them) beat you soundly with a big stick.<\/p>\n<p>Best of luck to you all in explaining this to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My questions are multitude and I don&#8217;t know where to begin. 1. 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