Dear crusader for restraint and focus,

It seems you may have missed my point.
I don't need to know any "official" thing about the accident in question,
other than that it occurred.
While you have an interesting degree of faith in NTSB reports, I do not
share it.
In any accident with which I am familiar, little valuable insight has
emerged regarding the genesis of said accident and,
even if there is valuable information, the FAA rarely acts fully on NTSB
recommendations. This is particularly true
of human factor associated accidents.
Perhaps I over generalize - but that is my opinion.

While we are waiting for the NTSB report shall we continue as if nothing has
happened?
In the present case, can we not make certain that everyone on the field
knows the bounds of the "Acro box"
and that it is published in NOTAMS for visiting pilots?
What is the wisdom of establishing an aerobatic area so near an operating
airport?
I don't pretend to know the answers but surely discussion can not harm the
expansion of knowledge.

If discussion makes one uncomfortable then perhaps one is in the wrong
business.

[Seeker of the truth and Grand Wizard of the Anti-politically correct
movement.]

Allan


"Jack" wrote in message
...
On 2004/01/17 14:19, in article , "ADP"
wrote:


It does not further knowledge to wait for a predictable report, arriving
in
a year, which concludes that "Both pilots were in VMC and responsible
for
their own separation."


None of us on r.a.s. possesses enough facts yet to even discuss, let alone
predict effectively, WRT the referenced accident. As usual, those who are
talking don't know, and those who know aren't talking. If one is able to
better the record of the NTSB and other professionals with ones Ouija
board,
there is always room for another "aviation consultant" on CNN.

The fact that too little is learned from many official reports should be
an
indicator of how hard it is to make a useful contribution to the
understanding of an accident, even when one has full time access to all
the
data and can approach it in a professional manner. But we can "further
knowledge" by discussing NTSB and other published reports of accidents
that
do contain extensive detail. There are enough of them to keep us busy
until
we tire of the subject. Of course that's more like work, and doesn't serve
as an emotional release for that part of each of us which wants to play
the
crusader.


Jack
[ crusader for restraint and focus ] :