STICKING YOUR NECK OUT?

Another opportunity to see if anyone wants to stick their neck out and
be subjected to flames by those who won't/haven't/never will.
It really surprises me when someone with learning experiences to tell
are ridiculed by people who seem to be bound by the book and can see
no further than the current copy of the regulations. Where would
aviation be today if pilots hadn't taken a chance and gone beyond?
Who can recall the first pilot to ferry a single engine airplane trans
pacific or trans atlantic? They sure as hell didn't know what was
actually ahead of them but they tried. What about the pilots in many
remote regions of the world who looked at it, decided it was possible
and made the attempt? Some made it and some didn't. Some were found
and others are still a mystery.
Who is to say those who have gone down with mechanical failure are to
blame or those who ran out of fuel are to blame for not landing at the
nearest airport to take on fuel when the nearest airport may be 5-600
miles away?
How many have had more than one actual mayday in their records and are
still around to discuss it to alert other pilots to possibles? Are
they to be chastised for their prediciments? Perhaps. But can we not
learn from them as well is the question.
I've got scars on my face from an aircraft accident in 1967. The only
injury that amounted to anything aside from a broken finger getting
out of a helicopter and stepping in a ditch in 1995.
Anyone care to exchange their own personal emergencies that the rest
can learn from? I've made many mistakes in aviation and have survived
them. Not proud of some of them but willing to admit what happened and
what led to it. As an instructor since 1966, I feel it part of my job
to pass along my screw-ups to new pilots so they don't repeat them.
Let them make their own and hopefully learn.
SelwayKid (from the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness area of
Montana/Idaho)

In article , SelwayKid
wrote:

As an instructor, do you teach your students how to evaluate a
situation and differentiate between good judgement and bad judgement?

That is really the crux of the discussion.
Risk is an analysis of the relative factors.
Judgement is the evaluation of that risk and the course of action to be
taken.

Who can recall the first pilot to ferry a single engine airplane trans
pacific or trans atlantic?

I believe his name was ... Charles Lindburg

Who can recall the first pilot to ferry a single engine airplane trans
pacific or trans atlantic?

I believe his name was ... Charles Lindburg

Close. It was Charles Lindbergh.
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Who can recall the first pilot to ferry a single engine airplane trans
pacific or trans atlantic?

I believe his name was ... Charles Lindbergh.


Nope. That wasn't a ferry flight.

Jose

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