On 11/12/06 08:21, Gary Drescher wrote:
"Mark Hansen" wrote in message
...
I have a friend that took me for a flight from the Bay Area in California
back to Sacramento (this was before I became a pilot) and upon taking off,
he flew right through a pretty heavy cloud layer. We were in the clouds
for
at least a minute before we broke back out. To this day he still says this
was ok - and he has several arguments why it was not unsafe.

I assume the flight wasn't IFR.

Yes, sorry. I guess it would have been clearer if I said it was VFR.


I simply won't fly with him any longer.

It's too bad that not flying with him isn't sufficient to protect ourselves
from his flying!

Well, it is my way of letting him know what I think about his conduct.
He's keenly aware, as I've pulled no punches with him on the subject,
and it's come up several times since then. He definitely exhibits some
of the 'dangerous attitudes' like machoism and anti-authority.

I think he's given up piloting for sailing now. I'm not sure if that's
much better though ;-\ Well ... better for pilots anyway.


--Gary





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Mark Hansen, PP-ASEL, Instrument Airplane
Cal Aggie Flying Farmers
Sacramento, CA