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Justin Fielding wrote:
Yip, live fast die young. Better than sitting in bed at 70 with all types of disease and cancer eating away at your internal organs. You can't hide from death, it will come to vist one day and unless you are religious and believe in the afterlife etc, it doesn't really matter if it is sooner or later, you will still end up dead! Justin, Can I take out some life insurance on you? |
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What I have belatedly discovered is that flying time is NOT
deducted from your life span. At 81. I expect to pass 11,000 hours this year. I got a late start and like every other pilot regret that I did not start flying sooner. Gene Whitt |
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On Thu, 05 May 2005 11:28:20 +0100, Justin Fielding
wrote in 1115288909.b70f95021093f69097531d629356868c@teran ews:: it doesn't really matter if it is sooner or later, you will still end up dead! Sometimes it's more about the journey than the destination. |
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"Bob Moore" wrote in message . 121... Justin Fielding wrote Yip, live fast die young. Better than sitting in bed at 70 with all types of disease and cancer eating away at your internal organs. RIGHT !!! I have now reached that age (70), but spend no more time in bed than you do and probably spend a lot more time at the airport or in an airplane than you do. Still a practicing flight instructor with over 20,000 hours of flying behind me and looking forward to lots more. I was on the receiving end of a Flight Review just last week and the other instructor was 76 years old. We had a great time in the 47 year old Cessna 172. Bob Moore ATP B-727 B-707 L-188 CFI CFII Naval Aviator S-2A P-2V P-3B 1958-1967 Pan American Airways 1967-1991 (retired) Yep. Getting there myself. The last CFI I was up with was 87 and he was getting a checkout in the airplane from ME! :-) Highflyer |
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Golly, what a bunch of OLD FARTS. I just ticked 61 and am looking forward
to all the stuff you all are talking about when I hit 70 (Are Depends anywhere in the mix? Just wondering...) {;-) Jim |
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LMAO,
Now that was funny!!! Patrick student SPL aircraft structural mech "RST Engineering" wrote in message ... Golly, what a bunch of OLD FARTS. I just ticked 61 and am looking forward to all the stuff you all are talking about when I hit 70 (Are Depends anywhere in the mix? Just wondering...) {;-) Jim |
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Bob Moore wrote:
I have now reached that age (70), but spend no more time in bed than you do and probably spend a lot more time at the airport or in an airplane than you do. You mean I *don't* get to sleep my life away when I get that old? Dammit, I was sorta looking forward to catching up on my sleep. :-) George Patterson There's plenty of room for all of God's creatures. Right next to the mashed potatoes. |
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There's no reason why living every day as your last precludes living every
day with the discipline to do everything in a way that best ensures that you live another day. Who would want their last day to be marked by sloppiness, lack of skill or poor judgement? Marcus Aurelius spoke at length on this topic ca. 200 AD. "Ed H" wrote in message ... "NW_PILOT" wrote in message ... No it is my concept of life. Plain in simple lifeis short! You never know how long you have. So live it like every day is your last. I'm a career Special Forces officer. I've made my living with and around firearms, explosives, parachutes, and other risky things. Not to mention roaming around places like Iraq trying not to get shot or blown up. Two of my favorite off-duty pursuits are aerobatic flying and mountaineering. So I'm fairly well acquianted with risk. Here's the thing: it's not about taking stupid chances in search of an adrenaline rush. It's about controlling your environment, mastering the challenges set before you. That means gathering information, knowing all the risks, having the right skills, and taking appropriate measures to ensure the outcome is positive. Every time. If you live like every day is your last, then it will become a self-fulfilling prophesy. It's a BS attitude. Your mentality should be "I may die, but it ain't gonna be today." Live to fly (or climb, or jump, or fight) another day. I don't know Bob Hoover, but I'm willing to bet that his attitude is closer to mine than to yours. I've known guys with your attitude. Some of them grew out of it. The others are dead. I don't blame you for the roll. I blame your CFI. You, as a student, cannot be criticized for trusting your CFI to advise you. I probably would have done the same thing 10 years ago, when I didn't know better. Your CFI should lose his instructor status, if not his flight privs. But that highlights the big danger in these kind of endeavors. You do the right thing by seeking help from an experienced person, but what if that person turns out to be an idiot? All I can say is be careful who you trust, seek second opinions, and look for appropriate certifications. One of the saddest things about the NTSB accident reports are all the stories of friends and family members killed by jackass pilots doing stupid things. |
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On Mon, 9 May 2005 10:28:09 -0500, "For Example John Smith"
wrote: There's no reason why living every day as your last precludes living every day with the discipline to do everything in a way that best ensures that you live another day. Who would want their last day to be marked by sloppiness, lack of skill or poor judgement? Marcus Aurelius spoke at length on this topic ca. 200 AD. I think those taking this stance for living every day as your last are ignoring today's connotations of the statement. I take the above statements explanation to mean "living every day to the fullest as it might be your last:". This is far different than the usual thoughts that go with live every day as if it were your last, which does bring to mind recklessness and lack of judgment. So too could "Live every day as if it were going to be your last" as it will be the light in which you are remembered. Word meanings change with time and statements such as the one above, even more. I'd assume the meaning of" living your life to the fullest as it might be the last" and Live every day as if it were to be your last may have changed since 200AD. It's different from culture to culture today. This is one of those statements that can easily mean virtually the opposite to two different people.. Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member) (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair) www.rogerhalstead.com "Ed H" wrote in message m... "NW_PILOT" wrote in message ... No it is my concept of life. Plain in simple lifeis short! You never know how long you have. So live it like every day is your last. I'm a career Special Forces officer. I've made my living with and around firearms, explosives, parachutes, and other risky things. Not to mention roaming around places like Iraq trying not to get shot or blown up. Two of my favorite off-duty pursuits are aerobatic flying and mountaineering. So I'm fairly well acquianted with risk. Here's the thing: it's not about taking stupid chances in search of an adrenaline rush. It's about controlling your environment, mastering the challenges set before you. That means gathering information, knowing all the risks, having the right skills, and taking appropriate measures to ensure the outcome is positive. Every time. If you live like every day is your last, then it will become a self-fulfilling prophesy. It's a BS attitude. Your mentality should be "I may die, but it ain't gonna be today." Live to fly (or climb, or jump, or fight) another day. I don't know Bob Hoover, but I'm willing to bet that his attitude is closer to mine than to yours. I've known guys with your attitude. Some of them grew out of it. The others are dead. I don't blame you for the roll. I blame your CFI. You, as a student, cannot be criticized for trusting your CFI to advise you. I probably would have done the same thing 10 years ago, when I didn't know better. Your CFI should lose his instructor status, if not his flight privs. But that highlights the big danger in these kind of endeavors. You do the right thing by seeking help from an experienced person, but what if that person turns out to be an idiot? All I can say is be careful who you trust, seek second opinions, and look for appropriate certifications. One of the saddest things about the NTSB accident reports are all the stories of friends and family members killed by jackass pilots doing stupid things. |
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