Knee Jerks

G Farris wrote:

In article f1mIf.555301$084.131444@attbi_s22,
says...


However, if one makes errors that result in crashing, one is a REALLY "Bad
Pilot". If I were to crash as the result of making a poor decision, or
because of inadequate piloting skills, I would expect -- no, DEMAND -- that
you guys rip me to shreds posthumously for being a "Bad Pilot" -- because
that's exactly what I would have been.

Where's the debate?




That's sophmoric, Jay. You know better.

The Air France captain who ran out of runway in Toronto last year - is he a
BAD pilot? Or has he been downgraded even further now, to REALLY BAD pilot?
Or perhaps, since no one was killed he is only a "pretty bad" pilot.

Yes, a pilot who lands halfway down the runway and then runs off the end
is definitely a bad pilot. A good pilot would have aborted the
landing and come back again or diverted somewhere else.


I am not trying to ridicule you - only to underscore what I think you already
know : The quality of our action cannot be judged solely on the basis of the
result.

This is because we are all imperfect, and make mistakes and misjudgements all
the time - not just once in a while. Every time you fly, Jay, you make
mistakes. I'll go further - I'll bet almost every time you fly you make
misjudgements serious enough to have killed other pilots, on other days, in
other places . . . I'll bet the Air France guy makes fewer of these.

So he's a bad pilot less often than Jay. What's your point?

Matt

In article , says...


Yes, a pilot who lands halfway down the runway and then runs off the end
is definitely a bad pilot. A good pilot would have aborted the
landing and come back again or diverted somewhere else.


Hindsight permits us to judge with severity one whom we could never have hoped
even to emulate in the present tense. . .

In article , says...


So he's a bad pilot less often than Jay. What's your point?

Matt


My point is simple.
There is such a thing as a bad pilot, but to define it as "one who has been
involved in an accident" is unsatisfactory, and does not stand up to scrutiny.

GF

G Farris wrote:
In article , says...


So he's a bad pilot less often than Jay. What's your point?

Matt



My point is simple.
There is such a thing as a bad pilot, but to define it as "one who has been
involved in an accident" is unsatisfactory, and does not stand up to scrutiny.

And your definition is...?

Matt