Who is regulating Aviation Safety? The FAA? I think not. Not unlike ALPA. if you play nice with management and do anything they want, you move up and you make the big bucks as a senior executive, passengers be damned. Who is protecting the integrity of the job and demanding proper training? Nobody. This is not unlike an FAA administrator who can leave that agency and walk onto an airline’s board, making multiples times more as he did with the FAA. Who is regulating the airlines? Nobody. Will we have more accidents and incidents in the future? Yes. What can we do? I have no idea.
Flight For Revenge
Those of you who know, I’ve been writing novels with real accidents, real incidents, real problems with training, and management greed. Then Flight for Discovery and Flight For Justice came to life with more truth than not. In the novels, not unlike real life, my characters are trying to improve safety and fighting back for the future of aviation and passenger safety. As the plot thickens, and management retaliates we find them in court. Yet, there is no accountability despite Darby Bradshaw winning on the legal realm.
Management retaliates again. Does Darby die in the last novel Flight For Justice? Or does she survive and seek revenge. The truth is, there are a handful of people who want these airline criminals held accountable, not just Darby.
Flight For Revenge is the first fully fiction novel, ahh… with facts of the all the other novels woven in. This is not a book for the weak at heart. Revenge is a serious matter, with much philosophical, religious, and the human condition contemplation woven in the pages. In my first novel, I asked, “How far can you break an industry before you break the pilot?” Now, we might just find out. Your job is to figure out who is holding the airline executives, doctors, and all those who participated in criminal behavior accountable.
Flight for Revenge is coming soon. So start at the beginning with Flight For Control, and follow the journey. Visit the bookstore to get yours now… and for every purchase you will receive an entry to win the car. Drawing on August 31, 2025.
Spoiler Alert
I’m well into Flight For Revenge, and a week ago we said goodbye to the EO pass travel lady who pretended to be an HR safety inspector, and was promoted after participating in the action against Darby. She was afraid of flying, takeoffs and landing her worst part of flying. Darby had scared the hell out of her by sharing all the events that were ongoing at Global Air Lines. That didn’t stop Ms. Abbott from working with the devil to create false reports.
There was only one way to dispose of her. With the greatest compassion, and her fear of takeoffs and landings, she only experience half that equation.
Matthew 5:39
“But I say, do not resist an evil person! If someone slaps you on the right cheek, offer the other cheek also.”
What happens when they have slapped both your cheeks and kicked you in the head?
Romans 12:19
“Dear friends, never take revenge. Leave that to the righteous anger of God. For the Scriptures say, ‘I will take revenge; I will pay them back,’ says the Lord.”
Well, when you give a little push out the door, we can let God take if from there.
This is my favorite novel out of all of them. But don’t judge me. This is therapy. Nah… actually it is simply fun to write. You will love this novel. But the truth is, what has happened to our airline industry is nothing to joke about, yet I’m at a loss as what can be done. Management, however, should be careful who they retaliate against.
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How sad that an airline will jeopardize safety to save money while wasting money paying someone a huge amount of cash that perjures himself in a lawsuit. Where is the integrity in senior management? The FAA is so under staffed that they can’t monitor airlines properly. Here is a gentleman who has no business being the CEO of an airline. Poor pilot training at that airline caused a major accident where the airplane rips a wing off and ends upside down followed two weeks later with wing strike on another airplane. He relinquishes his CEO job but is kept on as a SVP and is still on the Board of Directors. Again, where is the integrity of senior management?
Are we a captured nation? Portland General Electric might as well be Delta. Add in Oregon’s Department of Energy as the FAA. Don’t forget PGE’s Board of Directors and the PUC public utility commission. When everyone is in lock step with each other and the governor in our case, there is no accountability. Their Biglow wind farm has been allowed to fall apart for years while they ignored us begging them to fix the broken towers. Now the towers are too far gone to fix, so they are pivoting to solar – as pieces keep falling to the ground. Sound familiar? Even a small piece of fiberglass falling off a turbine (at 265 feet up) can kill (90 miles per hour). PGE raises their rates while stockholders pocket big dividends, https://projects.oregonlive.com/wind-farms/
They must all be working from the same playbook!
Tantalizing! I can’t wait for Flight for Revenge. Loved the cliffhanger in Flight for Justice. Can’t wait to see what Darby does next (come on, now. She has to live, let’s be real). That photo of American Airlines 587 is still so hard to see. Such a preventable crash on so many levels, and hundreds of people paid with their lives. Airbus, American Airlines, and their protected pilot who panicked while high on pure ephedrine AND pseudoephedrine. Accountability, indeed.
It’s sad to think how many people have died in airplanes that could have been avoided. It’s a tough photo, but this is exactly what happens with substandard training. And pilots who don’t understand and behave as monkeys.The real question is, are they dumbing down training to induce crashes, in order to promote fully automated planes? I’m thinking perhaps that’s what will happen. Time will tell. You will love this next book!!