Scared of mid-airs

Larry,

Those who rely upon the 'big sky
theory to PROTECT them from a MAC are playing Russian Roulette.


IMHO, your view of risk management is seriously flawed. You are asking
for zero risk, everything else is Russian Roulette, you say. However,
nothing in flying (and life) is 100-percent-risk free - there's never a
probability of zero for something undesirable to happen. The only way
to manage this risk is to look at the probability of something
happening and then decide if that probability is low enough for you to
live with it. And I guess we can all agree that there are many much
higher risks in GA flying than MACs.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

On Sun, 07 May 2006 17:27:45 +0200, Thomas Borchert
wrote in
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Larry,

Those who rely upon the 'big sky
theory to PROTECT them from a MAC are playing Russian Roulette.


IMHO, your view of risk management is seriously flawed.

If that were my view, I'd agree with you.

But if you had read Doug's article to which I had originally taken
exception, you'd know that it was his fallacious use of the word
'protect' that I was attempting to expose as implying the Big Sky
Theory had some ability to indemnify or guarantee any exposure to a
MAC.