-----Original Message-----
From: A Lieberman ]
Posted At: Friday, February 17, 2006 6:31 PM
Posted To: rec.aviation.ifr
Conversation: Gene Whitt is back on line
Subject: Gene Whitt is back on line

On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 22:35:06 -0000, wrote:

If YOU have not had an engine-out-emergency (EOE), then you are a
test pilot. Gene has had one... I've had 15. We are no longer test
pilots, as we KNOW how the flight will come out! :-)

15 engine outs???? Whoa, either you really fly some crappy equipment,
have
serious bad luck or they were gliders?

I have only once declared an emergency in my short 536 hours, can't
imagine
having 15 of them!

I have had mechanical situations crop up on me, loss of vacuum pump
during
night flight, minor electrical fire during the night, loss of one
brake on
landing, but nothing even close to 15 engine outs???

Allen
[Jim Carter]
No kidding... I've only had one swallow a valve while enroute in over
1600 hours, so applying my same "luck ratio" would put Jer at over 24000
hours -- unless some of them were for fuel starvation, then there's no
telling what the ratio might be.

And no, I way too rarely fly new stuff.