Steve

Day VFR only.
No landings/takeoffs at short back woods fields or high altitude
fields.
No overloaded bird. Don't bring all the fish back in one trip )
Plenty of gas for each leg.
Have co-pilot run a verbal checklist each take off and landing.

Straight and level point A to point B should be a piece of cake.

Good fishing.

Big John
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On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:10:30 -0700, "steve"
wrote:

Just heard about this on the morning news. Apparently pilot with 4 months
with the company had trouble maintaining altitude and attempted a landing at
the Easton, WA airstrip. It sounds like he came up short and crashed into
some trees, then cartwheeled and burst into flames.

This is tragic, and I have to wonder if he should have gone for the freeway,
which is also nearby. My instructor for BFR grilled me on what alternative
sites are available if it become apparent you aren't going to make your
emergency touch down point.

My deepest condolences to the family and friends of the pilot.

I was planning to fly to Bozeman, MT next weekend for fishing, but this has
my wife saying a definite no-way to my flying out there. She does have
somewhat of a point though. I just got checkout out for my complex rating,
and will have at best, 4 hours of time in type as PIC before going on this
trip.