gliderguynj wrote:
On Feb 14, 3:04 am, Mxsmanic wrote:
You can practice many activities for a lifetime without an emergency. When
pilots all start talking about their "inevitable" emergencies, it hardly
sounds reassuring. No emergency is inevitable, and anyone who expects an
emergency to come along is likely to be gratified by one sooner or later.


You really are doing more harm than good with posts like the above.



Actually, Mxsmanic's quote here is exactly....and I repeat it again for
complete clarity....EXACTLY the antithesis of the very essence of ALL
flight training, whether you are a pleasure pilot flying every Sunday or
fly the highest performance airplanes in the world daily as a professional.

From the first day you step into an airplane until the last flight you
make as a pilot, EVERY second you spend in the training process (a
process that lasts through your entire tenure in aviation) should be
spent preparing for an emergency that might never happen and usually
doesn't.

Contrary to your fear that Mxsmanic can do harm on these groups, I am
one flight instructor who welcomes him here. It saves people like me
tons of time having someone like this right at our fingertips as a
negative example to bounce from in making the positive points needed to
impress new pilots and encourage them into creating the right attitudes
that transition into a safe flying environment.

Mxsmanic is no problem here. If I die tomorrow, there will be another
good instructor here in a nano-second taking my place doing the same
thing I've been doing here for years.

There will always be people like this character on these newsgroups.
we all know who they are, and we all know how to deal with them.
No sweat at all. In fact, it can get quite entertaining at times.

--
Dudley Henriques