Just noticed that quite a few posts seem to be from low timers (maybe I'm wrong ) but what makes us a group think that it will never happen to use. In the last 40 years (almost ) I have seem people land with the gear up (down), fly into other aircraft, crash after taking off overweight, do a forced approach when carb ise would have worked, taxi into other aircraft because they were to busy adjusting headsets jump out of aircraft and then jave the airplane fly straight and level until it ran out of gas, hand start an airplane and watch if fly a solo circuit from the ground, land with just enough fuel to taxi ti the ramp as well as a thousand other stories that I cannot spell the details of.
Why do we (probably not all of us ) think that nothing can go wrong.
corrected thanks to the good suggestion of a post
Fearless Pilots
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Fearless Pilots
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I wish I could spell
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Re: Fearless Pilots
I've seen that quite a few times as well. I think I seen it like 30 times yesterday.Wasn't Me wrote:In the last 40 years (almost ) I have seem people land with the gear down
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I kind of agree with Northern Flyer. If you're always stressed about your engine quitting, or anything else for that matter, you'll never enjoy a single second of being in an airplane. At the same time, you should always have an out. When you're first starting, give yourself little emergencies in your head...where would you go if the engine quit now, and so on. After a while you don't have to think about it at all, you end up doing it subconciously. Well...that's the desired effect.
It's all about the happy medium. If you're over-confident, well sooner or later it'll bite ya in the ass. If you're scared to death all the time, you're more likely to stress out in sketchy situations perhaps. So like I said, it's all about the happy medium. Complacency kills. Shiny side up!
It's all about the happy medium. If you're over-confident, well sooner or later it'll bite ya in the ass. If you're scared to death all the time, you're more likely to stress out in sketchy situations perhaps. So like I said, it's all about the happy medium. Complacency kills. Shiny side up!
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Probably part of the reason the "Killzone" for pilots is 300-600 hours, when we are confident and know everything.
If I hear one more Cessna pilot say, "Well yea I was only overweight by 75 pounds so we just took off a little faster"
I seriously wish Darwin would eliminate those morons at an earlier age before they take someone else with them.
"Oh it's only a light frost"
"Well the last pilot told me he topped it up with fuel, we're good"
"We're down a quart of oil but the oil locker is shut and I don't have a key we'll be OK"
If I hear one more Cessna pilot say, "Well yea I was only overweight by 75 pounds so we just took off a little faster"
I seriously wish Darwin would eliminate those morons at an earlier age before they take someone else with them.
"Oh it's only a light frost"
"Well the last pilot told me he topped it up with fuel, we're good"
"We're down a quart of oil but the oil locker is shut and I don't have a key we'll be OK"
It's all very simple. When you pass your varied tests to get your licenses, what you have accomplished is pass the MINIMUM acceptble STANDARDS. It does not mean that all pilots are of the same ability at all. Some will barely pass those tests and others will perform very well in all elements. Some that barely passed will, over time, increase those abilities much higher. Others will remain at that barely passable level throughout their careers. I've seen a lot of "walk-arounds" before flight to check a/c and they are not ALL of the same quality. As a result, just because someone states they have a certain license means little to me.......let's start with a DI (Daily Inspection before 1st flight) and then we'll go from there.
