My problem with this thread has nothing to do with whether watching
accident videos makes us safer pilots - it often does (I have watched
several of Scott Gardiners at Arlington) and everything to do with the
intent of the owner of the site.
And it seems to me that he doesn't care about contributing to pilot
safety - his interest is in filming aviation accidents, and I truly
believe that when he leaves an airshow where there wasn't an
accident/incident, he feels cheated.
It kind of reminds me of a few years ago when I was in Lahore, and I was
approached by 2 individuals, one carrying a mongoose and one carrying a
cobra who wanted me to pay them 200 rupees to watch a private fight to
the death between the snake and the mongoose.
I told them I would pay them 1000 rupees to watch them fight to the
death instead. They couldn't understand my point - this guy wouldn't
either.
I have to ask why he didn't collect video of
spectacular/unusual/daring/precision airshow performances.
No - just crashes. And his posting on rec. aviation.piloting I can
accept. But his posting on rec.aviation.student is totally innapropriate
and could never be construed as constructive.

But then we have to consider where we are.
Usernet?
And more important - we have to ask who the hell is this guy?
Did any of you ever hear of him before this post?
I sure as hell didn't.

Is this whole thing just one more spam?
Let's face it - his site doesn't even bloody work!
I went to look, and give him the benefit of the doubt, and could only go
between his stupid helicopter (They were trying to hit him but missed -
that's why they crashed - can't he see that) and his links that bore no
relevance to the topic.
Where are the 100 videos? I sure as hell can't find them.
I agree with previous posters - let's move on - this creep surely ain't
worth falling out over

Tony
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Tony Roberts
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