Never say, "Fasten your seat belts, we're going down."
Better say, "Fasten your seatbelt, I'm getting ready to
land." even if you're going down.



"Bob Fry" wrote in message
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| "GB" == Greg B writes:
|
| GB I had a passenger sleeping while I was following
one of those
| GB large tow trucks that was towing a semi-tractor by
its
| GB tail. She woke up and screamed at first until she
realized we
| GB weren't on a collision course with the semi. Sure
startled
| GB me...
|
| I had a kid scream a few seconds before landing in a C182
"we're going
| to crash!!!" I remember thinking, humm, I don't think my
landings are
| that bad, does he see another plane??...then I realized he
wasn't used
| to the sight angle out the front of a Cessna in a steep
descent with
| 40 degrees flaps.
|
| I've had other pax ask if something is wrong when the
throttle is
| pulled back on downwind.
|
| An instructor told me that one time slipping a plane to
landing, his
| wife thought they were going to crash.
|
| Makes you realize that what to pilots are perfectly normal
things, to
| pax may be their last moments.
|
| --
| "Like car accidents, most hardware problems are due to
driver error."