Neat experience today.

Just because someone has their mother in the back doesn't make them a good
pilot as far as I can tell. If you're that trusting there's some ocean front
property in Arizona for sale that you'd probably like.

Viperdoc wrote:

Just because someone has their mother in the back doesn't make them a good
pilot as far as I can tell. If you're that trusting there's some ocean front
property in Arizona for sale that you'd probably like.

Some of us are timid, some aren't. I watched him land on the way in and
the FBO manager obviously knew him from their conversation, and I know
the FBO manager well. It simply wasn't a high risk undertaking, but for
timid folks like you, I certainly wouldn't recommend it.


Matt

I don't consider myself particularly timid- I routinely fly my own plane
between -4 and +8 g, although it's rated for a lot more, and am pretty
comfortable flying upside down equally well. I also have quite a few hours
flying in the back of F-16's with live ordinance hung off the wings as well,
sitting in a hot ejection seat with a rocket motor. This has nothing to do
with timidity.

I just choose not to jump in any stranger's plane for a joy ride. In
particular there seems to be a disproportionate number of Cirrus crashes
where the pilots apparently had more money than judgment.

If he sounded like he was mature and was known and respected by the FBO
owner, then perhaps this was good enough for you. On the other hand, there
are two pilots on our field who had just purchased new planes- an SU-29 and
a brand new Pitts, and both damaged their planes significantly in landing
accidents within the first 10 hours of ownership (one of them also had an
SR-22). Both are experienced and mature individuals, and not risk takers.
Would you have wanted to be on board for a joy ride during one of those
flights?

Don't mistake good judgment or cautiousness for a lack of macho.

"Viperdoc" wrote in news:byMeg.7634$GM.2024
@tornado.rdc-kc.rr.com:

You sound like one of those folks who argues for the sake of
argument. Your post contradicts itself.

If those "experienced and mature individuals, and not risk takers"
still managed to damage their planes, it sounds like a case of
"**** happens". If you are lowering the threshold to that level,
what's to say that in any situation we go through life won't
end up killing us in a "**** happens" type situation? What's to
say that on Matt's flight that some manufacturing defect decided
to rip one of hte wings off? **** happens. Would Matt's presence
on the flight or not have had any bearing?

Brian
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"Viperdoc" wrote in message
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Just because someone has their mother in the back doesn't make them a good
pilot as far as I can tell. If you're that trusting there's some ocean
front property in Arizona for sale that you'd probably like.


I would of went. I would love to fly in Cirrus. Ill take my chances with a
stranger.

Aluckyguess wrote:

"Viperdoc" wrote in message
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Just because someone has their mother in the back doesn't make them a good
pilot as far as I can tell. If you're that trusting there's some ocean
front property in Arizona for sale that you'd probably like.



I would of went. I would love to fly in Cirrus. Ill take my chances with a
stranger.

You daredevil, you!! :-)


Matt