Interesting database

[john smith]

http://www.planecrashinfo.com/famous.htm

It is interesting to peruse the lists through the years and see how many
politicians die each year.

[Paul Tomblin]

In a previous article, john smith > said:
>http://www.planecrashinfo.com/famous.htm
>
>It is interesting to peruse the lists through the years and see how many
>politicians die each year.

They fly into a lot of tiny places to campaign, and they're not the type
of person to say or allow their employees (pilots) to say "sorry, the
weather is too bad, we're not going to make that $100 a plate fundraiser".

And when they or their family members are flying themselves, they haven't
been practicing all that much and so they don't remember how to fly
partial panel. And then their idiot wives sue the manufacturer of a part
that was actually working when the place crashed, and the idiot
judges/juries award damages against the manufacturer. But that's a rant
for another time.

--
Paul Tomblin > http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
When the revolution comes, we'll need a longer wall.
-- Tom De Mulder

[AJ]

One of the pages on that website has recordings of cockpit warning
sounds. I'm not a commercial pilot, but still these make sense to me
except for "Altitude loss after takeoff or go-around." The recording
is of a voice that says "don't ... think." Can someone tell me why
those words were chosen for that situation? (Such a command is a
natural for me.)

AJ


john smith wrote:
> http://www.planecrashinfo.com/famous.htm
>
> It is interesting to peruse the lists through the years and see how many
> politicians die each year.

[Paul Tomblin]

In a previous article, "AJ" > said:
>One of the pages on that website has recordings of cockpit warning
>sounds. I'm not a commercial pilot, but still these make sense to me
>except for "Altitude loss after takeoff or go-around." The recording
>is of a voice that says "don't ... think." Can someone tell me why
>those words were chosen for that situation? (Such a command is a
>natural for me.)

Are you sure it's not saying "high sink (rate)" or something like that?


--
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[Once in a lifetime opportunity] is simply a veiled reference to the staff
contract termination procedure, which involves a sunny wall, a single
cigarette and some middling to average marksmen... -- Dan Holdsworth

[Bob Gardner]

I suspect that the word was "sink," not "think."

Bob Gardner

"AJ" > wrote in message
oups.com...
> One of the pages on that website has recordings of cockpit warning
> sounds. I'm not a commercial pilot, but still these make sense to me
> except for "Altitude loss after takeoff or go-around." The recording
> is of a voice that says "don't ... think." Can someone tell me why
> those words were chosen for that situation? (Such a command is a
> natural for me.)
>
> AJ
>
>
> john smith wrote:
>> http://www.planecrashinfo.com/famous.htm
>>
>> It is interesting to peruse the lists through the years and see how many
>> politicians die each year.
>

[Skylune[_1_]]

by ptomblin+netnews@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Tomblin) Jul 19, 2006 at 02:50
PM


In a previous article, john smith <jsmith@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
>http://www.planecrashinfo.com/famous.htm
>
>It is interesting to peruse the lists through the years and see how many

>politicians die each year.

They fly into a lot of tiny places to campaign, and they're not the type
of person to say or allow their employees (pilots) to say "sorry, the
weather is too bad, we're not going to make that $100 a plate
fundraiser".

And when they or their family members are flying themselves, they haven't
been practicing all that much and so they don't remember how to fly
partial panel. And then their idiot wives sue the manufacturer of a part
that was actually working when the place crashed, and the idiot
judges/juries award damages against the manufacturer. But that's a rant
for another time
<<

I already posted this dead Kennedy database. Note the number of musicians
also killed. Probably more than by drug ODs.

Who they should really sue is the FAA, for making it so easy to get and
keep your ticket to fly/die, as your post suggests when you say:

"they haven't
been practicing all that much and so they don't remember how to fly
partial panel."

This is exactly the point I have been arguing, and why I stopped flying.
Once a month ain't gonna cut it, but you'd still be legal. The AOPA
should stop promoting the fiction of how easy it is to fly. They should
say it is easy to get your ticket. It takes alot of hard work to fly
safely.

Oh well as the saying goes (it was about lawyers but I will adapt it):
98% of the pilots give the rest a bad name.

[Kingfish]

Skylune wrote:
>> This is exactly the point I have been arguing, and why I stopped flying.

I suspect you stopped flying not because of any moral imperative, but
that you felt you just couldn't cut it. I'm curious to know how far
along you were in your PPL training when you had your great revelation.

>> Once a month ain't gonna cut it, but you'd still be legal.

If you're a competant VFR pilot flying once a month, while not ideal,
does not automatically make you dangerous. If you try to fly IFR in
crummy weather, that's a different story.


>>The AOPA should stop promoting the fiction of how easy it is to fly. They should
>> say it is easy to get your ticket.

Apparently it's not so easy, after all - you couldn't get it done...


>> Oh well as the saying goes (it was about lawyers but I will adapt it):
>> 98% of the pilots give the rest a bad name.

More whining from a quitter. If ya can't join 'em, bash 'em - right
Loon? Your bitterness is most transparent