He maintains that his crew-based approach to managing aircraft incidents, such as reporting smoke, is essential for safety.

“total crew effort when that kind of stuff happens everybody has like a role to play. So far and away not just me up there doing stuff, but um flight engineer, all the other guys, too.”

Operating aircraft from aircraft carriers provided the highest level of personal job satisfaction due to the unique challenges and patriotic nature of the work.

“Daytoday my personal personal level of job satisfaction is higher when I was a fleet aviator. Not to say that's not to say anything negative about NASA. That doesn't I don't mean that at all. But if I got one life to live, I'm going to serve my country in the Navy flying aircraft off carriers.”

He believes that AAVs, or amphibious assault vehicles, are dangerous and unreliable pieces of equipment that soldiers should fear.

“If you've ever seen one of those, that in my mind screams metal death trap.”

He states that military pilots are trained to prioritize flying the airplane over communicating during emergencies.

“you're also trained aviate, navigate, communicate in that order. Fly the airplane first. That's your first priority.”

The F35 is a technically complex aircraft that has known deficiencies and is potentially susceptible to being hacked.

“in 2018 there was a report that indicated that 53 of the I'm sorry uh the F35 had 13 uh category 1 deficiencies that made flying uh dangerous”