Jim Burns wrote:

What
happened over D.C. has NOTHING to do with the ability to be a good

pilot,

and EVERYTHING to do with a ****ty, "I don't care, I've been flying for

35

years and screw you and your rules" attitude.


Show up at an airport, any day, and you'll be suprised how often you see
this attitude. What sucks is that it isn't brought to the attention of
on-looking students so they can learn that it is wrong and that no matter
how old you get or how many hours you have in your log book, stupid is still
stupid. It seems that only after a preventible mistake, incident, or
accident occurs do other pilots start commenting about it and other people
learn from their blood.

I'd be willing to bet that somewhere there is a pilot that has questioned
this instructors methods, decision making, planning, or attitude in the

Turns out neither pilot was an instructor, according to AOPA.