"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:35:37 -0500, "Darkwing"
theducksmailATyahoo.com wrote in
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A fool and his money soon has more aircraft than he can handle.

In the case of this Columbia crash, a recently certificated ATP was
PIC:
http://www.landings.com/_landings/pa...bia-crash.html

Perhaps there's something inherently dangerous about composite
aircraft?


I don't know what the glide ratio is on a Cirrus or a Columbia but I can't
imagine it is really good.

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DW