Clearwater FL mid air; one fatality

Enefesdi Varspooli Bhootpalamdi wrote:
you, sir, are an idiot, in addition to a troll.

Yep, that could be.



and a quite unattractive troll at that.

No, actually I'm pretty good looking.



the AIM states that you call every position in the pattern, be it in
crosswind, downwind, base or final. the aim is advisory, you say, and
not regulatory! oh ho, but explain that to an NTSB judge when you've
knocked another plane out of the sky and ended several people's lives
prematurely because you thought the advisory information was
unnecessary, and didn't contribute enough to safety to justify lifting
your green, sausagelike finger and depressing the extremely life limited
PTT switch, energizing the grossly inefficient, hence gasoline wasting
radio, which jeopardizes the lives of thousands of birds in your
vicinity simply through its frankensteinesque, extravagant use of
radiant energy.

Now, that's funny.



in fact, you probably have to start your APU just to transmit.

Hmmmmm...APU. Might have to get one of those.



in all seriousness, i certainly hope you don't come into contact with
student pilots or pilots that are still malleable in their attention to
detail or attitude towards doing every last useful thing to further
safety of flight for everyone; not just themselves.

As a matter of fact I do, as a rep of the FAA no less. Every pilot
meeting we have with the college I speak of I reccomend that they talk
less and look more, just from a personal preference standpoint.



you need only consider the situation where instrument traffic gets a
late handoff to an uncontrolled CTAF,

And then what good is the 48 radio calls you just made if there's no one
there?


and someone not making any calls
going onto base or final, and you have yourselves an error chain fit for
a midair.

Are you looking outside? Ever?


when both planes are low, slow, and focused on the runway.
need me to draw a picture?

Sounds like about all you would understand.



note: read the AIM on proper radio speaking technique, not just when to
speak. you'll probably cut down your transmission lengths by half.

Have you ever read this newsgroup? Ever?


AND ANOTHER THING. stop asking for any traffic in the area to please
advise when you change to CTAF;

Oh I see now, you think I drive a jet.


change 10nm out, that way you can listen
for anyone in the pattern making PROPER calls on EVERY leg.

Radio calls are not necessary, on any leg.


of course,
if there was only one person in the pattern there, and they were making
one call on every downwind, and doing full-stop taxibacks, you probably
want to listen up 20nm up if you're not flying a piper cub.

I fly a 182. At 10 miles out one call every midfield downwind would
allow me to hear 3 or 4 calls. That's plenty enough for me. How about you?