kontiki wrote:

Matt Whiting wrote:

How would that have helped him not hit a truck and ambulance? That
was just plain stupidity, nothing to do with the inherent danger of
making a takeoff from that road. Not asking to have the emergency
vehicles moved was simply stupid.


I agree... but you are making my point. I never said that that taking off
from a road was inherently dangerous, although most roads (other than
interstate highways) typically can have obstacles (i.e. light poles, etc.)
to be concerned with that make steering the plane down the center
especially
important.... less room for error than your typical runway.

My point was that he was obviously incapable of making a proper judgement
about that so perhaps someone more experienced would have unsisted on
clearing out all the vehicles before attempting the take off, I certainly
would have.

My point is that asking a more experienced pilot for advice wasn't
required as the advice he needed had nothing to do with flying and had
more to do with simply having a brain. My guess most of the bystanders
could have told him that he should have the vehicles moved. This isn't
aviation, this is simply physics. The wings were too long for the space
apparently availabe. I say apparently because looking at the video it
wasn't obvious to me that he was as far to the left as he could have
been. Another two feet probably would have made the difference. This
guy obviously doesn't have the IQ to be flying.


Matt