On Aug 2, 6:30 am, Larry Dighera wrote:
On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:42:38 -0700, Ol Shy & Bashful
wrote in
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Now I am operating on the Gulf
Coast and have a lot of close encounters with military training
aircraft on a weekly basis. I'll continue to keep my head on a swivel
and do my damndest to SEE AND AVOID to avoid being on the News at 9. I
can only hope every other pilot out there has the same attitude.

I don't know what you're flying, but from the military/civil MACs,
whose NTSB URLs I posted earlier in this message thread, I get the
impression that the military pilots, operating well in excess of the
250 knot speed restriction below 10,000' in their stoutly constructed
fighters and trainers equipped with ejection seats do not have the
same trepidation of colliding with a "LBF" that GA pilots have. After
all, the military pilots survived the MACs without injury.

Larry
All the more reason for heads up huh? Another incident/accident
occured in SE Wa state (mid 90's?) when a pair of Navy jets ran over a
Grumman Ag Cat from his 6 at about 2-300agl while he was returning
from a spray flight. The Navy tried to blame the Ag Cat pilot for the
collision! The Cat pilot survived but was pretty badly injured. I can
think of a couple times when military jet aircraft were flying over
area I was spraying in a Pawnee and it was pretty damned close.
I see T-34's and T-6's all over our operating area and the close calls
are nearly always with a flight of two in formation. I suspect they
are tooo involved in avoiding a mid-air in the formation than they are
about colliding with another aircraft?
Best Regards
Ol S&B