Isn't amazing how much time seems to exist in those few
moments. And all the details that you see.


"Dudley Henriques" wrote in
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| "Jim Macklin" wrote
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| That was a long time ago, when the King Air lost its
tail.
| They did rebuild it, it is probably still flying. That
was
| back in the days when a Bonanza was about $40,000 and 90
| King Air was about $400,000.
|
| Lots of things that are legal are not safe, lots of safe
| things are not legal and good judgment can be taught by
| example. Some people will not learn, some instructor
don't
| teach, when those two types get together bad things
happen.
|
| We've all seen pilots do stupid tricks and get away with
| most of them. I've also seen other things they didn't
get
| away with, the AeroCommander salesman, demo'd a Turbo
690
| [?] to a university. He wanted to show the customer,
not a
| pilot, how safe the airplane was. He decided that
putting
| the gear lever UP while taxiing would be a good idea, to
| show that the gear would not retract on the ground. He
| didn't could on the struts being over-inflated. The
gear
| did retract but the plane just settled on the flat belly
and
| the props did not hit the ground. Actually sold that
same
| model to the customer. The damage was to the skin and
| antennas.
| Saw a Tulsa police officer and owner of a nice Citabra
taxi
| in after a few beers and a short flight at the Tulsa
| Downtown Airpark. Everything would have been fine if
he'd
| stopped before the prop louvered the trunk lid on his
car.
| One winter, back in the 60s, I saw a Beech 18 mail plane
| operated by an outfit called SEMO, land and take-off at
SPI
| with a 30 knot headwind on a sub-freezing night. They
took
| off on rwy 30 and used 3,000 feet to get the tail up and
| about 4,000 feet to lift off. I don't know how many
pounds
| over gross the plane was, but I saw them load two trucks
of
| mail bags and boxes.
| Too many CFIs are just trying to earn a living and get
the
| hours needed for a "real" job, too many students are
| interested in the quickest time from first flight to the
| license. JFK Jr. should be alive, so should John
Denver, so
| should Buddy Holly, so should a lot of people. As far
as I
| know all my students are alive and well.
|
|
| --
| James H. Macklin
| ATP,CFI,A&P
|
| So true! When it's all been said and done, all we can
expect to leave with
| is the knowledge we did the best we could with what we had
to work with.
| God only knows I've been given a second chance more than
once by something a
| lot more powerful than me :-)
| I remember one day coming out of a loop as the trailer in
a two ship P51
| formation where the lead had taken us in way too fast at
the high apex. On
| the bottom, he had me pinned between the ground and his
airplane. I was
| cutting grass at 300 plus and looking up the butt crack of
a cow. My prop
| probably shaved his antlers a bit as I went over him and
with no place to
| go, I hollered "give me some room...NOW!!" Lead pitched up
to the right and
| I went between two buildings in knife edge, standing on
the right rudder
| with forward stick. Think I had about 4 feet of tip
clearance, but I'm
| here!!! :-)
| Yup...we've ALL had our moments
| :-)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) )
| Dudley Henriques
|
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