Almost saw someone crash

On Sat, 22 May 2004 08:30:10 -0600, "Newps"
wrote:


"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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It may seem odd, but this is how people often react when they have been
badly frightened.

I bet she wasn't frightened. I know two people on my field who are exactly
the same way, always have been.

I guess that's the way I was after totaling my Trans Am. Kid pulled
out and I took the GMC Jimmy broad side. I never was scared. I
didn't have time to be. He came shooting out, I hit the brakes and we
hit. I heard the bang from the airbags and the next thing I knew I
could feel the car spinning. Couldn't see a thing for all the smoke
and dust from the powder in the airbags.

I never was scared nor did I get the shakes afterwards, but man was I
punchy.

As far as the talkativeness, I've always been that way so no one would
know the difference.

When the Deb's engine quit on climbout I went on autopilot. Mine, not
the airplanes. I certainly had a heightened sense of awareness, but I
don't think fear played much of a part.

What I don't understand is why some one would be frustrated seeing
some one else doing something foolish.

Every day I see people not eating right, eating too much, and not
exercising which is probably just as dangerous as scud running and I'm
not condoning either one. I just don't get excited until the dirt and
parts start flying. Then it bothers me more to see some ones else in
a wreck than when it was me. I was busy helping on the scene when
some one happened to ask, "Man, Who was in that car?". I raised my
had and said "here". One paramedic immediately asked me what day is
it? I replied, "How the hell would I know? I'm retired!". He said,
"You're OK".

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

"Roger Halstead" wrote in message
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What I don't understand is why some one would be frustrated seeing
some one else doing something foolish.

Every day I see people not eating right, eating too much, and not
exercising which is probably just as dangerous as scud running and I'm
not condoning either one.

The difference being that they are much less likely to kill someone else
while engaging in those dangerous activities, and they won't be used against
the rest of us pilots to "prove" to the public that flying is too dangerous
to be allowed to happen without even more regulation.

Pete