How safe is a new teenaged pilot?

("Happy Dog" wrote)
Just make sure that they don't try flying across one of the great
lakes, especially at night.

Is that your best cautionary suggestion? Your recommendation is
hysterical in nature and of almost no relevant preventative value. Think
or shut up.


It was an ok "cautionary" suggestion.

Recommendation was not hysterical in nature - especially if measured against
your terse response. A young man recently slipped under the waves (while
talking to 911) on a cold, dark and windy night, after ditching in Lake
Michigan -
don't fly over the lakes at night 17 year olds.

There, one 'what if' addressed - relevant preventative value in that.


"Think or shut up."

Wow. This is just precious.


Montblack

"Montblack"
Just make sure that they don't try flying across one of the great
lakes, especially at night.

Is that your best cautionary suggestion? Your recommendation is
hysterical in nature and of almost no relevant preventative value. Think
or shut up.

It was an ok "cautionary" suggestion.

I said "is that your best".

Recommendation was not hysterical in nature - especially if measured
against
your terse response. A young man recently slipped under the waves (while
talking to 911) on a cold, dark and windy night, after ditching in Lake
Michigan - don't fly over the lakes at night 17 year olds.

Recommendation was hysterical in nature if measured against reality. Would
he have been OK during the day? Was he 17? Was he a new teenaged pilot?
Do you know what caused that accident? The NTSC needs your number if you
do.

There, one 'what if' addressed - relevant preventative value in that.

You don't know what you're talking about.

"Think or shut up."

Wow. This is just precious.

You have said nothing interesting. Take the hint.

moo

("Happy Dog" wrote)
[snips]

Recommendation was hysterical in nature if measured against reality.

Somewhere between "hysterical" and "reality" we disagree.


You have said nothing interesting.

What's the line (paraphrasing) in the documentary Empire of the Air - The
Men Who Made Radio? (PBS 1991) ...'You trade reality for words, than you
talk about the words.'


Take the hint.

Your other send-off was precious, this one is simply trite.


Montblack

In article , Montblack wrote:
Recommendation was not hysterical in nature - especially if measured against
your terse response. A young man recently slipped under the waves (while
talking to 911) on a cold, dark and windy night, after ditching in Lake
Michigan -
don't fly over the lakes at night 17 year olds.

It wasn't really relevant to this discussion. If we want to go into
'what ifs' I could write a 20,000 word list of 'what ifs', the vast
majority being irrelevant. I highly doubt these people are going on a
lake-crossing cross-country, it's much more likely they are going for a
45-minute local flying trip that won't cross a body of water larger than
someone's swimming pool.

I've known plenty of old men to cross bodies of water at night with no
survival gear, too. This kind of thing isn't limited to younger people.

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