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![]() "jd-10" wrote in message ... In article , Matt Whiting wrote: People talk about safety like it is an absolute and it simply isn't. It depends on the circumstances I've read this entire thread and while everyone else is too PC to say it, I will: You are a *****ing* fool. As big a fool as the OP. Flying single-engine in the mountains at night is like playing Russian roulette with 4 of six loaded. You are a corpse waiting to happen. If you fly with your wife, she is as well. It's death-wish assholes like you that give all the reasonable and prudent GA pilots a bad name. You're no different than a guy I used to see in Montana, at the annual Schafer fly-in. I saw him drink two beers and then jump in his 185 and go fly. At the time, I told a friend "that guy is a corpse waiting to happen. He's one of those guys who thinks **** won't happen to him, and one of these days he's going to paint himself into a corner he can't get out of." Less than a year later, the guy was dead, killed in a collision with a cumulo-granite not far from Schafer, scud running. He took two others with him, the son of a bitch. You remind me of that guy. No regard for your own safety, much less the safety of others. I hope you wise up before you kill your wife. -- JD-10 I would rather fly over the mountains at night in a single engine than drive on today's highways theres way to many people out there that are on some kind of mind altering substance "pansy pills" and some people think calling some one you dont know a "*****ing* fool" may not be the safest thing to do in this day and age also. If I seen someone down 2 beers and junp in to an airplane I would do what ever was in my power to try and stop the person from taking off. But from what you said you could also be a fool for just sitting and talking about it doing nothing. Ohh!!! There is a big diffreance in flying over mountians at night in a single engine airplane. Than drinking and flying! Some of us weigh risk in different ways, in this part of the country even if it were during the day we may only have a 3 to 5% better chance of surviving if it was daytime. The terrain we fly over sometimes it can take 4 to 6 hours to walk a mile in it and most the time no wreckage can be found. People in Seattle Area did they ever find that L39 that disappeared in the cascades this fall? |
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