On Mar 28, 12:42*pm, "Mike Isaksen" wrote:
I have no reason to doubt your pilot skills and experience, and your claim
to two total electric failures might explain your hyper-anxiety.

Nah. I've had two total electricals, two partial engine failures and
one total, and one total vacuum failure, and I'm not particularly
anxious. These things happen when your hours are well into 4 digits
flying stuff mostly built before you were born. What's more, the
vacuum failure was in a twin (as was one of the electricals), and was
the result of two independent point failures. First the vacuum pump
on the left engine quit - but since I was on top, still had one good
one on the right engine, and was going home anyway, I elected to
continue. Then the right engine quit for unrelated reasons. That put
me in a single-engine, partial panel situation. Also, tops were above
my single engine service ceiling. And there was icing in the clouds.
And there I was, single engine, partial panel, shooting an ILS while
ice was building.

All I could think of was that song by Pink Floyd
"Ice is forming on the tips of my wings
Unheeded warnings I thought I thought of everything"

Fly long enough, **** will happen. Train hard enough, and when it
does you get a story to tell, not a closed casket funeral. I shot the
ILS and landed, no drama. It's the marginal pilots that get anxious.
Of course that's about all the FAA has, except for a few old timers.
Once knew a good pilot who joined the FAA. Didn't last - they drove
him out pretty quick.

But I
wonder if you aren't stretching your qualifications a bit with the claim of
being both an FAA and an NTSB Inspector.

Well, the NTSB routinely delegates the accident investigation of GA
accidents to the FAA, and a lot of those guys like to puff up their
importance by claiming to be NTSB investigators - which they
technically are, by delegation.

See, all of you assume he's just a troll and not an ex-FAA employee at
all, but having seen what they've got working at the local FSDO, I'm
perfectly prepared to believe he worked there. He'd fit right in.
Certainly his level of aviation knowledge matches the typical
inspector.

Michael