Thread: 3 lives lost
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Old January 20th 05, 01:11 PM
Denny
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Absolutely! The AgCat did an Immelman and rammed the jet from
behind...

OK, all fun and tongue in cheek aside..
1. I am pro military flyboys... They put their ass on the line in
defense of the country, for meager pay..
2..It is a given that they have to train...
3. BUT! Other than the prohibited areas it is public airspace and the
over taking craft must give way...

Look at the Ninja flight in Florida that slaughtered an innocent and
totally in the right CFI... The military has a cavalier attitude that
you are obligated to stay out of their way as they bust speed limits,
altitude/heading rules, and aerobatic restrictions, in public
airspace... It is time to haul the military up short and for the courts
to inform them (in the form of manslaughter convictions) that they are
obligated to exercise due care because being faster and more
maneuverable than the spam can they are the burdened vessel... The
military absolutely has to place radar aircraft near the hot zone
scanning for civilian traffic to protect the public during training
maneuvers - and that is the bottom line... Consider the flip side of
the coin - Your wife is tooling down I-80 and an Abrams tank comes
flying out of the weeds and crushes your car, and her, flat and keeps
going... And the military tells you that it was a training mission and
therefore your wife was obligated to say out of their way...

The final reality, is that if a combat aircraft (training or not)
cannot see and avoid a 110 knot spam can, what chance in frozen hell,
would they have of surviving more than 30 seconds in an actual combat
zone against an enemy that intends to maneuver in close enough to kill
them?

Denny