True, but this is making a big assumption that the pilot knew she was
doing this.

I wasn't assuming anything. I was reponding to a previous post that
stated:

They are literally trusting you with thier lives.
You job as PIC is to honor that trust by maintaining wide safety
margins,

We were not discussing this accident, we were discussing safety margins.

Tony

--

Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Cessna 172H C-GICE

In article ,
Matt Whiting wrote:

tony roberts wrote:

You have no right to put your passengers in this kind of a situation.
When they get in the airplane, they have no way of knowing the level of
risk you are taking. They are literally trusting you with thier lives.
You job as PIC is to honor that trust by maintaining wide safety
margins, by not even remotely approaching the 'edge.'


That one paragraph could save so many lives, if only pilots adhered to
it. There is not one single excuse that gives any pilot the right to
play the odds with another persons life.

True, but this is making a big assumption that the pilot knew she was
doing this. None of us were there to see the weather at the time of
takeoff or know what else was going on. I don't know many pilots who
would intentionally put their passengers at risk, but sometimes it
happens. Never having had a crash, I don't know what a typical lead-in
scenario is and many pilots who crash don't live to tell us what they
were seeing and thinking.


Matt