On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 21:48:47 -0800, Jerry Springer
wrote:

Bret Ludwig wrote:
Jerry Springer wrote:
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More manure



Where is your proof? How much original research on this have you done?
What primary sources can you quote? You are like all the other people
who believe whatever you are told instead of thinking the problem
through. That is to say, gullible.

How about experience from being in aviation since I was two years old
when my father bought his first airplane? The experience of being around
aviation and aviation people all of my life. Or maybe from being a
flight instructor since 1976? Gullible, I don't think so.
"Get-home-itis" can be caused by many factors, I don't believe you can
pin it on just pilots with family as you eluded to in another post.

Jerry

Getthereitis has a many causes as there are pilots or drivers.

What causes getthereitis in one pilot will cause stayputitis in
another.

If I take family and/or friends some where I tend to be more
conservative than when flying alone. I want their trip to be fun, not
scary. My wife has ridden on enough trips that IFR doesn't bother
her, but turbulence with the hard bumps (like chuckholes in a road)
do. When we go on vacation we plan on getting "there" today, or
tomorrow, or the day after and it's the same on the way home.

WE have 4 seats and long range, but normally I fly alone or with my
wife unless it's just short sight seeing trips. My wife and I in
front and the baggage compartment as well as the rear seats usually
ends up full. We've never learned to travel light. :-))

"From many years of flying" I would say "in general" family and
friends will cause an experienced pilot to be more conservative while
a pilot who has to be at work Monday morning my push it instead of
taking another day of vacation. Some places require vacation be
scheduled months in advance and there may be repercussions if you
don't make it back on time. OTOH some pilots would jump at the
excuse of squeezing in another day off.:-))

I've been thinking of taking a short trip just to shake out some of
the cobwebs as I've done little traveling in the past couple of years,
but with the wind forecast today being 30G60 I don't think it's going
to be this week end. OTOH I have flown over 500 miles on a day when
it was 30G50 and my wife was with me. I've never seen a ground speed
that high when flying that low, before or since. At 500 feet the winds
were over 100 at least for the first 100 to 150 miles. After that they
dropped to about a 40 knot tail wind.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com
Roger