At 20:00 26 March 2005, Jack wrote:

Does that make me a knucklehead? In my opinion, IT
DOES!

Okay, I'll make an exception for you...

...my point was (deep breath), if we insist on looking
no further than calling
someone stupid as the root cause of an accident, we
won't learn anything.
Furthermore, if we believe most accidents are caused
by low intelligence
(or some other inherent trait) then we should be able
to give pilots
some sort of test to see if they have what it takes
to fly.

By that logic, you would have to believe that your
specific problems really
had nothing to do with medication, dehydration, heat,
currency - you're just
a pilot who can't fly and we should be able to give
you the test and find
that out so we can exclude you from competition. This
seems to be the
argument.

I guess it's comforting to say about some poor unfortunate
- 'oh, he was a
moron - I'd NEVER to that!' It's too easy - and false
- logic.

So you guys believe that pilots like Klaus Holighaus,
Helmut Reichmann,
Robbie Robertson, Peter Masak, Bill Ivans (I could
go on and on) were all
just knuckleheads. Wow.

9B