Things not to do while working on your private ticket...

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On Aug 5, 10:10*am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
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Peter Dohm wrote:
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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?

I wouldn't say you're a nazi, but to say that a piece of paper makes
someone a good pilot is not what I'd call reason.
I read the preliminary reoprt and there is no indication that it was
pilot error. It might have been, but you've leapt well beyond what
the evidence suggests. You might well be right about it, and chances
are good, but a piece of paperis, of itself, meaningless.
And, as is often said, a private pilot's licence is a licence to
learn. It might also be aptly applied to any licence. I've seen ATRs,
examiners and people you would most definitely not expect to do so
make even bigger errors in judgement than that which you are accucing
this guy. A fully fueled 172 with three SOB taking off out of a 4,000
foot strip with a 3,500 foot density altitude is not what could even
remotely be called a tight situation.

Bertie

The credentials document the subject had demonstrated some level of
competency to an examiner. This pilot did not do that. It does not
mean he was not Sire Dud in drag, but the way to bet is that he was a
doofus. That is was likely unlawful is a further assessment of his
lack of judgment.


I agree that it's likely. but it's not proven by any means. In any case,
even a dufus should be able to get a 172 out of a long strip even on a
high DA day.
The 172 was designed with the dufus in mind.
My real objection to this is that the paper is, in of itself, no
gauruntee against idiocy. Lots of pilots at every level are complete
morons. The two things that grate me about this sort of monday morning
quarterbacking in the absence of almost any sort of facts are these.
One, you're hanging the guy without due process, which is geting
altogether too commonplace in this day and age, and secondly, and more
imprtantly. the oportunity to learn something from the accident is lost.
"Get a licence and you'll be safer" is not a good lesson.

Of course all would be forgiven if he stayed at a Holiday Inn last
night (playing MSFS of course).