Is not flying safe?

"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATcox.net wrote in message
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Terrible story that basically boils down to the fact that if his wife
hadn't bitched and let him learn to fly he would probably be alive today.

Any number of things, including having shown up at the airport that day just
a little earlier or a little later, would likely have changed the outcome.

However, I know lots of people who *are* pilots who still do stuff like
standing around watching *other* pilots fly. I see no reason to suggest
that this guy lost his life *because* he wasn't a pilot. That's just
absurd. He could just as easily have been standing where he was whether or
not he was a pilot.

Pete

Terrible story that basically boils down to the fact that if his wife
hadn't bitched and let him learn to fly he would probably be alive
today.

Any number of things, including having shown up at the airport that day
just
a little earlier or a little later, would likely have changed the outcome.

However, I know lots of people who *are* pilots who still do stuff like
standing around watching *other* pilots fly. I see no reason to suggest
that this guy lost his life *because* he wasn't a pilot. That's just
absurd. He could just as easily have been standing where he was whether
or
not he was a pilot.

Pete


C'mon Pete, Ya gotta lighten up. ;-)

Peter

"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATcox.net wrote in message
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Terrible story that basically boils down to the fact that if his wife
hadn't bitched and let him learn to fly he would probably be alive today.

Any number of things, including having shown up at the airport that day
just a little earlier or a little later, would likely have changed the
outcome.

However, I know lots of people who *are* pilots who still do stuff like
standing around watching *other* pilots fly. I see no reason to suggest
that this guy lost his life *because* he wasn't a pilot. That's just
absurd. He could just as easily have been standing where he was whether
or not he was a pilot.

Pete



Hence the modifier "probably." And if he had have died anyway he would have
at least done it after he had spent many, many hours doing something that he
obviously dreamed about doing.

"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATcox.net wrote in message
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Hence the modifier "probably." And if he had have died anyway he would
have at least done it after he had spent many, many hours doing something
that he obviously dreamed about doing.

Well, IMHO "probably" doesn't even come close to the true likelihood (except
inasmuch as even a trivial modification to his life might have cause a
completely different outcome...in that respect, "being a pilot" is no
different than "dropping his toothbrush").

As far as "doing something that he obviously dreamed about doing",
well...not accomplishing that is a problem for anyone who dreams about being
a pilot but doesn't ever become one, even if they die at a ripe old age.

I think it's awful that anyone would die in such a way, but it seems even
more awful to try to make a case that simply being a pilot would somehow
confer immunity to such events.

But then...the new Peter says I should lighten up. Maybe the fact that I
just don't see the point of the comment "he would probably be alive today"
just has to do with the "heaviness" I apparently carry around with me.

Pete

"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATcox.net wrote in message
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Hence the modifier "probably." And if he had have died anyway he would
have at least done it after he had spent many, many hours doing
something
that he obviously dreamed about doing.

Well, IMHO "probably" doesn't even come close to the true likelihood
(except
inasmuch as even a trivial modification to his life might have cause a
completely different outcome...in that respect, "being a pilot" is no
different than "dropping his toothbrush").

As far as "doing something that he obviously dreamed about doing",
well...not accomplishing that is a problem for anyone who dreams about
being
a pilot but doesn't ever become one, even if they die at a ripe old age.

I think it's awful that anyone would die in such a way, but it seems even
more awful to try to make a case that simply being a pilot would somehow
confer immunity to such events.

But then...the new Peter says I should lighten up. Maybe the fact that I
just don't see the point of the comment "he would probably be alive today"
just has to do with the "heaviness" I apparently carry around with me.

Pete


I'm sorry, Pete,

I really don't know just what posts I might have momentarily combined;
because upon rereading the thread, yours is the one that I agree with.

Perhaps I need to lighten up.

Peter