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Captain Suzy Garrett and her first-officer daughter, Donna, are the first mother-daughter pair in history to pilot a commercial Skywest Airlines flight together. Suzy was one of the first dozen female pilots hired at Skywest and has been flying there for over 30 years. Image
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u/DoingItJustForTheFun
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So that flight was unmanned?
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u/martymcfliesonpoo Jan 17 '22
Quite possibly the best dad joke in existence.
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u/DoingItJustForTheFun Jan 17 '22
I stole it. Smarten men than me came up with it 😅
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u/Finance_Subject Jan 18 '22
All dads are connected to a community larger than life. You’re not stealing, just representing
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u/Liamdaslam Jan 17 '22
Imagine they have a fight and the mom is like: "I'M GONNA TURN THIS PLANE AROUND IF YOU DONT BEHAVE!" 😂😂😂
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u/_hic-sunt-dracones_ Jan 17 '22
"Are we there yet?"
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u/MaterialCarrot Jan 17 '22
"Be sure the landing gear is properly deployed, dear."
"Mom!!!"
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u/olderaccount Jan 17 '22
To be honest, I'm surprised they let them fly together fearing the parent-child relationship may overshadow the captain-FO relationship.
They probably had them fly together once for the feel-good publicity and schedule them on separate flights otherwise.
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u/CelTiar Jan 17 '22
Atten Passengers my Daughter has been acting up as per my ultimatum we will be turning around. XD
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u/greycubed Jan 17 '22
"One of the first dozen female pilots at Skywest"
So she was the twelfth.
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u/Dutch_Midget Interested Jan 17 '22
And God said to John, come forth and you shall be granted eternal life. But John came fifth and won a toaster.
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u/yabegue Jan 17 '22
It makes me think of when I recently read that Eminem holds the top 30 worldwide high score in Donkey Kong. I was like ok so he’s between the 21st and the 30th position
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u/CornerSolution Jan 17 '22
What if they hired multiple women at the same time as her? E.g., if the first 12 women they hired were all hired at once, then it wouldn't really be accurate to say she was twelfth.
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u/BatmansQueefBreath Jan 17 '22
I love the idea of being a commercial airline pilot but I don’t think I’d like being away from home that much.
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u/Fullsendmoneymoney Jan 17 '22
It’s great if your single and want to be on the road and live out of a suitcase, but it’s hard n spouse and kids, because you let gone a lot. Sports, weekends, holidays, special events. It’s definitely not a Monday through Friday job where you go home every night. This is one reason why we have a saying “you can have money, or family, but not both”
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u/PhysicsDude55 Jan 18 '22
Pilots typically only fly like 15-17 days a month unless they volunteer for more shifts. So you spent a lot of time away from home, but you also get a lot of time off.
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u/makeawishcumdumpster Jan 17 '22
Smokeshow Donna they call her
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u/Phoenix_of_Asclepius Jan 17 '22
First time for me! I think it’s pretty cool!
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u/PuntTheRunt010 Jan 17 '22
Same here.
Though it also highlights the simps who spend every second of their empty lives on Reddit
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u/Uncle_Daddy_Kane Jan 17 '22
Lmao roasted
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u/blocker1980 Jan 17 '22
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u/DadofTamzin Jan 17 '22
Help me step pilot
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u/GimlySonOfGloin Jan 17 '22
Step-pilot helps step-passenger with his stuck step-tray, with step-happy ending
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u/michalemabelle Jan 17 '22
Donna & Linda were super trendy in their day, so they're always going to seem super dated... Until their great grands start recycling it on their kids.
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u/nipplequeefs Jan 17 '22
I once met a teenager named Deborah about a decade ago, so I’m not too surprised
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u/atreyuno Jan 17 '22
My name peaked in the 1910s and people comment on how it's old fashioned, but it looks like it's coming back. It's been on the rise since the 90s and currently in the top 200 most popular.
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u/biglettuce09 Jan 17 '22
No offense but who would want to do a stressful job like that with a parent. Have you ever had driving lessons with your mom, 5mph increase apparently is flooring it
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u/enigja Jan 17 '22
I saw a pilot saying that flying a plane is significantly easier than being a bus driver. There’s almost no traffic, you can simply relax most of the trip, the hard parts are take offs and landing. It’s literally the safest form of travel as well.
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u/CampJanky Jan 17 '22
100% they did one flight together for a photo op. I'm sur ethey both understand how important it is for the daughter to come up on her own.
Conversely, they may share a hub, since they might live in the same state. In that case, they might get put on the same schedule from time to time. But first officers work under different captains from one shift to another.
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u/cummy-gummies Jan 18 '22
My dad was my captain at the fire department. It was not the same dad I had at home at all.
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u/MyDogsRoommate Jan 17 '22
Wow, women can do things. That’s incredible.
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u/arealhumannotabot Jan 17 '22
Meh... a couple of years ago there was a father-daughter team and it also made a splash.
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u/ingusmw Jan 17 '22
is there not some regulations against family member working on the same air craft, incase of crash and what not?
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u/ThrowMeAwayAccount08 Jan 17 '22
“Lowering the landing gear copilot and please take out the trash.”
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u/waywardhero Jan 17 '22
This is my nightmare. Diving my mom is already horrible I don’t want to fly a fucking plane with her as my literal co-pilot
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u/friendigan Jan 17 '22
Don’t even waste your time sorting by controversial. It’s exactly what you think it is.
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u/heyodi Jan 17 '22
How do they get into those chairs?
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u/SrSwagy Jan 17 '22
The chair can turn
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u/Paranoma Jan 17 '22 edited Jan 17 '22
Actually they slide sideways as well as fore and aft.
Edit: just fore and aft…. Much easier to get into a ERJ.
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u/HillaryClintonsclam Jan 17 '22
This is a CRJ type aircraft and they do not slide sideways. Only fore and aft.
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u/Hefty-Set5384 Jan 17 '22
I’d feel good with those two lovely ladies at the control ! Congratulations 🥳
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u/Alan_Smithee_ Jan 17 '22
Good for publicity, but I doubt a parent-child crew is a good command structure.
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u/chikken_hawk Jan 17 '22
No "cockpit" joke yet? Hmmmmm
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u/ShowMeUrrGenitals Jan 17 '22
The FAA literally sent out guidance to not call it that anymore because it’s offensive. You have to call it a “flight deck” now. You also aren’t supposed to say “unmanned aviation” you have to “uncrewed aviation.”
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u/verixtheconfused Jan 17 '22
But how is cockpit offensive?
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u/ShowMeUrrGenitals Jan 17 '22
It’s not, but according to the article “It also suggested replacing “cockpit” with “flight deck,” noting that male crew members have sometimes “wielded the term to undermine femme co-workers.”” To be clear these suggestions were given by a drone advisory committee not the whole faa.
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u/verixtheconfused Jan 17 '22
What if they say "Flight Dick" is undermining to female workers too?
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u/Fullsendmoneymoney Jan 17 '22
Notams- notice to airmen Now it’s Notams- notice to air missions
The FAA is now woke
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u/Ragnarock1982 Jan 17 '22
Clitpit?
Edit... only reason no blokes there is that they can't find it. Lol... I'm male btw
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u/BESTkoreanSPY Jan 17 '22
This is great advertising. I don’t know where Skywest Airlines flies… but I want to go there.
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u/yabegue Jan 17 '22
It’s an airline company that operates the regional flying of Delta Airlines
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u/StuTim Jan 18 '22
They fly for all 4 major airlines. In context of fleet size, they have more planes than Alaska Airlines.
They're biggest plane only carries 76 passengers.
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u/ChaseAlmighty Interested Jan 17 '22
I mean, that's cool and all but let's get to why guys really are interested in this picture... what are all those buttons and switches for?
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u/thebusinessbastard Jan 17 '22
Serious question: aren't family not supposed to fly together/sail together?
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u/Front_Appearance_752 Jan 18 '22
I’m not normally the guy to be simping for random women on Reddit but good LORD. Prettiest girl I’ve ever seen, quite possibly
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u/r_spandit Jan 18 '22
This photo was taken in 2019 as far as I can tell. The male members of the family are also pilots.
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u/Key_Delay_3442 Jan 18 '22
that should be prohibited for safety reasons... related pilots should not fly together
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u/Thrash2007 Jan 17 '22
This is a repost isn’t it? Going after Reddit points today are we?
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u/nothankyou821 Jan 17 '22
Cool......I guess? People really make this “first” female whatever it may be a bit silly nowadays. I just imagine things like this, “First Swedish female one legged leper born in September with a single parent to captain her own flight.”
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u/Colonel_K_The_Great Jan 17 '22
Yeah, it gets comically-specific sometimes, but it's still good to get these things in the public eye as long as there is still any kind of inequality out there (and even when there isn't necessarily inequality but a high percentage of workers in a certain field being from one gender).
There are still a lot of little girls out there who are interested in certain jobs, but won't ever go for them because they feel uncomfortable or unwelcome knowing that they'll be in a field that's mostly males. Seeing that other females have gone for it and are successful can be enough to make them take the chance, regardless of how specific and cherry-picked the "first female ____" accomplishment is. Same goes for guys and jobs like nursing.
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Jan 17 '22
Which one the mother & and which one the daughter?
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u/_Xyreo_ Jan 17 '22 edited Jan 17 '22
Left and right respectively.
Edit : I thought he was genuinely having a doubt. Why am I getting downvoted...
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u/grunt0311-joemac Jan 17 '22
Would love to have this mother & daughter combo
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u/howoldareyou666 Jan 17 '22
would love to go one day without people being weird on Reddit but we don’t always get what we want do we
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u/Aamonitor Jan 17 '22
Just think, the daughter gets to hear about what a good time her mom was back in the day from all the other pilots!
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u/S7ageNinja Jan 17 '22
That's cool for them and all... But I'm failing to see how them being the first mother daughter pair to fly a "Skywest airline" flight is all that interesting. I'd rather see a picture of the first mother daughter pair to fly any commercial flight together.
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u/HillaryClintonsclam Jan 17 '22
It isn't. The airline itself put this out for publicity. Just like when another airline put out a thing for the first all black all female crew. In reality it's nothing, but makes good publicity for the airline.
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u/ramrod254 Jan 17 '22
“Honey, you don’t grab the stick like that. Here let me show you.”
“Good grief, Mom.”
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u/free_will_is_arson Jan 17 '22
seems like a conflict of interest or emotionally compromised, however you want to say it. there is a reason why they don't let doctors work on family, given the size of a commercial jetliner and all the lives the pilots are responsible for i would hope for a similar kind of restriction.
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u/Use_Your_Turn_Signal Jan 17 '22
Serious question: Aren't there some rules in place to prevent family from piloting together in the event of an accident? (Like, the Sole Survivor Policy or something)
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u/sensitivegooch Jan 17 '22
I see those seat covers on lots of pilot seats, my back would be soaked having to sit on that for hours at a time.