-
Please take a moment and update your account profile. If you have an updated account profile with basic information on why you are on Air Warriors it will help other people respond to your posts. How do you update your profile you ask?
Go here:
Edit Account Details and Profile
From the "Things not to do in A-pool" Dept...
- Thread starter ChunksJR
- Start date
Harrier Dude
Living the dream
It's not supposed to be fun. It's TRA (see also CYA for the CO). The whole point is to stop anything bad from ever happening to anybody, ever. After all, isn't that what we're here for? Our whole purpose for existing is to exist and stay as completely harm free as possible until we can retire. Where have you been?
By the way, TRA may someday be replaced by LCS (Leadership and Common Sense), but the program is not yet ready becasue the initiating conference was delayed 2 years because the participants are not allowed to drive or fly to the Pentagon becasue of TRA. Ironic, isn't it? They are all walking there wrapped in bubblewrap and thinking non-aggressive thoughts.
Four or five feet doesn't seem all that high to me. You can get more air than that with a regular behind-the-boat tube if you pop the wake the right way. All you need is a good ski boat. It's fun, but I can easily see how a guy could break his back.
pdx
HSM Pilot
It's not like they are happy about it in my squadron either, but it does happen. Walk across the hall and check out our "take 10 for ORM sheets." I have never been told that I can't do something (yet), but I have had to listen to some retarded "don't kill yourself" lectures. Or my favorite, the "priorities lecture" where someone tells you that flight school should have a higher priority than (fill in fun activity), therefore, you shouldn't do it.
The ORM policy isn't really that restrictive, but it does FEEL restrictive. And it makes you feel like you are twelve years old. Plus, I don't really think it stops stupid people from doing stupid things.
Harrier Dude
Living the dream
You're missing the point entirely! ORM has nothing to do with preventing accidents. Just as long as we appear to be doing something about safety, we've accomplished the mission. If we can cover our bosses a$$ while we're at it, all the better. Remember, results aren't important. It's the intentions that count. GET WITH THE PROGRAM, SAFETY VIOLATOR!!!!!!
Ok. Now I have to go finish my 2 gallon jug of Kool-aid.
So thats what the big 5 principles of ORM hanging in the hangar means. Got it.
Harrier Dude
Living the dream
Exactly. It's slogans and catch phrases that count. Not results. The more posters and handy reference cards your safety department puts out, the safer you appear. That's all that matters.
Here's a way to prove that ORM works miracles in safety: If you've had a period of accident-free time; ORM is working. If you ever have any kind of mishap, no matter how small; YOU ARE NOT USING ORM ENOUGH AND YOUR SAFETY OFFICER MUST BE FIRED!! IT'S ALL HIS FAULT!!
ORM: Learn it. Know it. Live it.
More Kool-aide......
Recall of 19,000 Tube Kites...
Here we go...it's the american dream...get injured enuf to sue, but not enuf to kill yourself...:icon_smil
Here we go...it's the american dream...get injured enuf to sue, but not enuf to kill yourself...:icon_smil
I think this guy is on to something here. I suppose you could mount some lunch trays to the bottom of the tube, and start driving fast.
Then again that would be as smart as those dumb kids that killed themselves a couple years back trying to copy the Jacka$$ show on MTV. But imagine the story you could tell afterwards...
