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.