tony roberts wrote in message news:nospam-F8B576.22245708092004@shawnews...

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.

When I went to get my float rating, the first thing the instructor did
was show me film shot for the opening scene of a movie ("Mother Lode"
IIRC) that features a Beaver landing a little too nose-low and doing
somersaults. It was supposed to just land but it crashed instead
(nobody killed) and they decided to work it into the story.

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.

I kind of doubt that... I think people on average enjoy and are
stimulated by the existence of danger, but when an actual accident
occurs, the "oh my God I hope they're OK" response takes over.

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've been to the bullfights in Spain- something like a combination
between opera, the Mass, and a visit to the butcher shop. There is
some redeeming culture value and supposedly all the beef gets donated
to charities.


Cheers,
-cwk.