Larry Dighera wrote:

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 05:23:24 GMT, 588 wrote in
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I've never known a fighter pilot to have anything but respect for
the potential of a midair...immensely more than the average light plane
pilot, in my experience.

That is a result of the limited set of fighter pilots with whom you
have been in contact.

And on what do you base your statements: a contact group equal to
zero? Unlike yours, my reference group is populated -- and not least
by myself and scores of others to whom I have entrusted my safety as
they have entrusted theirs to me. You have chosen a set of four
according to the particular quality of their having been involved in
a fatal mid-air with a civilian aircraft. I suggest it is not I who
have the more biased and limited view of the problem.


How would you characterize the respect for a potential midair
demonstrated by Parker...? (I don't expect you to
answer that, it would require some courage on your part.)

Not a problem, Larry -- I can let the official report speak for
itself, prepared as it has been by those much closer to the problem
than I. As to our respective degrees of courage in the face of
USENET onslaughts -- each is probably adequate to the task. Anyway,
I am willing to give you the benefit of the doubt.


Jack