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Agreed.
Many pilots, in an attempt to perpetuate the "most dangerous part of flying is the drive to the airport" myth, feel compelled to condemn unsuccessful aviators as dolts or statistical outliers for the purpose of assuaging their potential passengers' fear of flying. While we can remove or control many of the factors of risk in general aviation, GA statistics are a reflection of the fact that for miles traveled, or trips taken, GA flying is considerably deadlier than driving. Rather than dispelling pilots who crash as fools (which admittedly many are, read the NTSB reports), let's learn from their mistakes, place ourselves in their scenarios, and ask ourselves what we'd do in similar circumstances. "Dan Luke" c172rgATbellsouthDOTnet wrote in message ... "Orval Fairbairn" wrote: Just read the ASRS reports to see how these conditions can creep up on an otherwise proficient pilot and take heed! Amen. From a pilot's perspective, one of the most distressing things about that accident was all the condemnation of JFK from the pilot community, as if all these god-like aviators are immune from such an event. That adolescent illusion of invulnerability gets people killed. -- Dan C172RG at BFM |
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