by "gatt" Jul 18, 2006 at 07:33 PM


"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
...

No offense, but somebody once told me that journalists were those
noble

warriors who came out on the field after the battle to bayonet the
wounded.

Good one.

Based on what? Give us an actual anecdote.

Somebody once told me that when she never saw so cocaine until her mom
was

dating an airline pilot and throwing them parties in Orange County, CA
back
in the early '80s, and that those airline pilots put away more cocaine in
a
single party than she saw in her entire life since. Is that too a "Good
One"? Are pilots drug addicts bcause of what somebody once told me
about
them?



No. But there are some clowns out there. The final straw when I dropped
out of training during the 90s was when the CFI jerk I was using (I won't
mention the chain's name, for libel purposes) showed up one morning
smelling of bourbon or scotch or something. After his earlier stunts (I
won't repeat them), I decided I wanted no part of this thing. Too
unprofessional, too easy to get a ticket to kill yourself, etc.

Now, I only fly occassionally in the right seat with my VFR trained buddy.
And, I won't go with him when its hazy out, or conditions are marginal
(even slight crosswinds). He flies just enough to be dangerous, and I
fear he will wind up as a dead Kennedy one day. His confidence is way
bigger than his experience level.