Dick Rutan makes emergency landing in C150

Denny wrote:
We can snicker all we want at the clueless reporting of a liberal arts
major, low man on the totem pole, who gets sent to report on general
aviation - but how many of us have contacted the paqper and the tv
station and offered to take the general news reporter(s) flying on a
saturday afternoon so we can teach them the basics?


I've never bothered. I have suggested to them that before they ever ran an
aviation story, they ought to run it through their on-staff aviation expert to
make sure it made sense: their helicopter pilot. He's just a phone call away,
they already know him, and he knows flying.

Judging from the quality of their later aviation stories, they couldn't be
bothered. As a result, aircraft engines continue to stall and airplanes crash
because the pilot's medical had expired.

Is it any wonder that I take a newspaper's endorsement of a politician with a
grain of salt? They **** everything else up; why not that?



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com

"MS" == Mortimer Schnerd Mortimer writes:

MS As a result, aircraft engines continue
MS to stall and airplanes crash because the pilot's medical had
MS expired.

This is flat BS and proves you don't know squat about flying. The
crashes happen because the reckless pilots fail to file flight plans.
--
Whenever anyone says "I can't," it makes me wish he'd get stung
to death by about ten thousand bees. When he says "I'll try,"
five thousand bees. ("I can," one bee.)
- Jack Handey

Bob Fry wrote:
"MS" == Mortimer Schnerd Mortimer writes:

As a result, aircraft engines continue
to stall and airplanes crash because the pilot's medical had
expired.

This is flat BS and proves you don't know squat about flying. The
crashes happen because the reckless pilots fail to file flight plans.


I stand corrected.



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com

Bob Fry wrote:
"MS" == Mortimer Schnerd Mortimer writes:

MS As a result, aircraft engines continue
MS to stall and airplanes crash because the pilot's medical had
MS expired.

This is flat BS and proves you don't know squat about flying. The
crashes happen because the reckless pilots fail to file flight plans.

No, the failure to file a flight plan is what caused the engine to
stall. It was the engine "stall" that caused the crash. :-)

Matt