Rchard Riley wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 05:55:08 GMT, "G. Sylvester"
wrote:
If it's true, in California (and many other states) your instructor
would have committed a felony. And if he'd tried it with me, we'd
both be dead, unless he could throw his taser out the window within
the first 7-10 seconds. If you and he find hijacking jokes complete
with live weapons funny, that's fine. I think it's serious business.

first off, it was NOT live, 2nd, he wasn't hijacking anything. It was
only me and it was very very clear it was a joke and that is the
way I took it. I've known him now for many years so it wasn't the first
flight we went on. Probably more like the 80th flight.
The joke happened during after take off and during
an intermediate altitude cruise after all checklists were done and
workload was very low...all I had to do was fly the plane and enjoy
the ride. I agree with you if it were at a critical phase of flight.
He's smart enough to not even think about doing that. If I didn't take
it as it was meant, I would have fired him or pushed him from the plane.

Gerald Sylvester