Steven P, McNicoll just ****ed me off

"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" wrote:

George Patterson wrote:

Basically, it was go now, or wait several minutes wasting time and
fuel at the hold short line. I've done the same thing.

I got that at RDU once. They told me to expedite 'cause a Delta 737
was on a four mile final. I was 400' up when I passed the tower.

I had a courier job once where I flew out of RDU five days a week. On
numerous occasions I was given a "go now or hold your piece (spelling
intentional)". I'd forego the wake separation, blast off and turn
onto course once I was 20 feet or so in the air... getting away from
the centerline ASAP so someone else could use it. Sometimes they'd
let me go before an airliner that got there first simply because they
knew I wouldn't be a factor for very long at all. The airliners
couldn't do the same.

My cancelled checks sitting in the back never complained.

Do such actions also help explain the high fatality rate of commercial
pilots, one of the highest rates of any occupation?

James Robinson wrote:
Do such actions also help explain the high fatality rate of commercial
pilots, one of the highest rates of any occupation?


No. The high fatality rate is due to the crap we have to operate, and the
crappy weather in which we are expected to operate. Commercial pilots aren't
able to always sit on the ground and wait out the weather; we are expected to
go. Should it be that way? No, It just is.

Please take your judgemental attitude and shove it up your ass. And have a nice
day.




--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN

VE

"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" wrote:

James Robinson wrote:
Do such actions also help explain the high fatality rate of
commercial pilots, one of the highest rates of any occupation?

No. The high fatality rate is due to the crap we have to operate, and
the crappy weather in which we are expected to operate. Commercial
pilots aren't able to always sit on the ground and wait out the
weather; we are expected to go. Should it be that way? No, It just
is.

Please take your judgemental attitude and shove it up your ass. And
have a nice day.

Now is that nice? I only asked an innocent little question. Well perhaps
not so innocent...

James Robinson wrote:

Do such actions also help explain the high fatality rate of commercial
pilots, one of the highest rates of any occupation?

Not likely. In my case, it would take about two minutes for that 737 to cover
that 4 miles. Even an O-320 can get me out of the way by the time he gets there.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.