What crashed in front of us today?

nt (Gordon) wrote in message ...
Small GA is less safe than operating a motorcycle, on the road. (US)

Seriously? I've seen a heck of a lot more downed motorcycles than GA a/c.

What
you were doing was never the safest thing.

I'm supposed to raise him, not keep him in a bubble. For years he's stood by
the runway, watching me step out of various aircraft with a giant-sized
s-eating grin on my face, telling him, "Sorry, you aren't tall enough for this
ride." Under the tutetage of a 7,000-hour TWA Captain in his personal
aircraft, meticulously maintained since he purchased it in 1976, it seemed a
more responsible than handing him to a leather-clad biker on a Ninja.

What would she say if you let
him go as a passenger on a motorcycle?

My son and I have a deal - he never gets on a motorcycle while I am alive, and
in return, I will never break his legs. The worst moment of my life has been
telling parents that their son was killed on his bike (hit by dozens of cars at
the I-5/I-8 interchange). I can't protect him from life, but I couldn't take
re-living that particular moment from other side of the desk.

LOL! You remind me of my late brother, who flew a few hundred combat
hours in Dustoff UH-1D/H models in Vietnam and returned to the US
where he spent a couple of years as a paramedic for a municipal fire
department and flying for the Guard until he went back to aviation as
a career. He was thirteen years older than I was, and I still remember
at about the age of 16 or so, when I wanted the independence of my own
transportation (but knew the parents were not going to let me have my
own car), deciding that maybe I could afford a motorcycle. Having
picked up the leavin's of more than a few suicide jockeys during his
time, he put his arm around my neck and quietly told me, "Sure, you
can get a motorcycle--but if you do, I am going to break every bone in
your body and save Mom and Dad the worry of waiting for some cop to
deliver the news to them that you killed yourself on that bike." I
never did get that bike.

Brooks


Gordon