Gig 601Xl Builder wrote:
Peter Dohm wrote:
"Gig 601Xl Builder" wrote in message
m...


much snipped
The guy didn't have a license yet he went X-C to
pick up his wife and child. He might get charged with child
endangerment. He would if I was the DA there.

IMHO, you are a Nazi, and therefore a major irritant!

Peter




I'm a NAZI because I think a person that puts their child and wife in
danger by flying them while legally and obviously actually unqualified
to do so should be charged with child endangerment?



Actually I once witnessed a crash involving a properly licensed pilot
who decided to "show off" to the bosses daughter by taking her up in a
twin Apache that he wasn't current on (he hadn't flown for over two
months). He was practicing "touch and goes" and wound up taking the
aircraft through the fence at the end of the runway, across a busy
highway, and into a ditch. He missed hitting a truck by a whisker. The
"boss" wasn't impressed either. He'd left carb heat "on" for both
engines, should have nailed the brakes instead of attempting to take off
(particularly as he'd landed "long" and had allowed too much speed to
bleed off). Pam told me later (when I went to visit her in the
hospital) how he was busy reading the check-list when he looked up to
see the end of the runway approaching.