"Marty Shapiro" wrote in message
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Since the principle benefits I derive from flying are experience and
enjoyment, I have no fear that the FAA is
going to come on some witchhunt to get me. Mainly because I've never
heard anybody with a contrary example.

Did you ever hear of Bob Hoover?

Three things:

1) Met him.

2) Turns out, he's still flying.

3) If the FAA is going to ground Bob Hoover because of a witchhunt as people
recognize it, (there is more to the story, but it's nobody's business. It
was medical in nature) it proves that the FAA will ground the best pilot
alive on wild-ass speculation and it really is us against them.

If you choose to let them bully you into submission without so much as a
fight for it, that's your business. I am fortunate in that flying is not my
livelihood. That's a battle that, if it ever came up, wouldn't destroy me if
I lost. I don't allow my skivvies to get knotted up too much about whether
I might theoretically offend the FAA based on some trivial reason; if they
ever decide to harrass me for taking my dad flying or something, they'll
find me medically and practically current in an airworthy and inspected
aircraft. Then we'll see what happens.

But I'm not going to not fly for fear that they might tell me not to fly. In
1988, somebody significant told me that because of my vision, the FAA would
never allow me to fly a plane. I'm glad I didn't listen.

-c
PP-ASEL-IA