Orlando Crash Video

Jay,

Jay Honeck wrote:
Whether his decision to avoid the pickup truck was stupid or not, he
gave
his life in missing it.

Jay, I never claimed anything the CFI did was "stupid".

I know.

But some have implied it was.

And, you know, maybe it was. But he had only a few seconds to make a
choice, and -- "there but for the grace of God" -- that could have been
any
of us.

I am fascinated by a pilot's decision making. I have done 'stupid' things -
one made me go get my Instrument Rating. I sit in pilot meetings - the
speaker reads an accident report and the pilots kinda chuckle with a "I
would never do that!" look - but I bet the accident pilot would have thought
the same. I think if we can fix this broken part of flying, we could
seriously improve the statistics.

Hilton

the
speaker reads an accident report and the pilots kinda chuckle with a "I
would never do that!" look - but I bet the accident pilot would have thought
the same. I think if we can fix this broken part of flying, we could
seriously improve the statistics.

Yea...but how? I'm now the Safety Officer at the small cargo company I work for
and this is a problem we have. We are a safe company, but I see it in the
pilot's lounge in the morning...if an accident comes up I hear a lot "what an
idiot, why did he do that?!?" rolling their eyes type of thing.



-John
*You are nothing until you have flown a Douglas, Lockheed, Grumman or North
American*

Even a good dial up should be able to move that in a little under an hour.


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:wlGGd.10869$EG1.6665@attbi_s53...
Secondly, I have to agree with Martin in that "huge" is somewhat
'relative' - for example, I routinely work with video files in the range
of
13 to 20 Giga bytes, which I think of as normal - so I tend to think of
your
'huge' 14MB as being 'trivial' (took less than 2 1/2 minutes to
download).

Well, for the 70% of American internet users still on dial-up connections,
a
14 mb file will take all day to download.

That's "huge" for most people!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

The same could be said of the fatal Aryton Senna accident (for you Formula
One fans). OK, he was going substantially faster and hit a concrete wall,
but I don't think anyone was expecting anything bad at all - I still
remember watching the accident on TV - bummer he hit the wall, I guess
he's
outa the race, that wasn't too bad, he'll just hop out once he's undone
his
steering wheel, any minute now, anytime now, soon, gees I hope he's OK. I
think the conscensus afterwards was that his front-right wheel sheered off
and impacted his helmet (please correct me if I'm wrong). I guess
sometimes
you get lucky, and sometimes you get unlucky.

F1 is a religion to me - I'm a MS Fan (who incidentally was behind Aryton
at the time).

I'm reminded of a motorist who wears a crash helmet whilst driving -
everyone thinks it's "over the top" - interesting that his occupation is
Neurosurgeon - the guy who gets to deal with all the head trauma from the
MVA.

I've read somewhere of a plan (by some manufacturer) to put an airbag in an
aircraft - don't know any more details.

"Cockpit Colin" wrote

I'm reminded of a motorist who wears a crash helmet whilst driving -
everyone thinks it's "over the top" - interesting that his occupation is
Neurosurgeon - the guy who gets to deal with all the head trauma from the
MVA.

I've read somewhere of a plan (by some manufacturer) to put an airbag in
an
aircraft - don't know any more details.

+++++++++++++++++++++++
I'm thinking now of Dale Earnhart. Suppose we all should wear a Hans
Device in the plane?

Tough part is knowing where to stop. Odds of a bad impact are pretty great
in a race car. I wonder how much less in a single engine plane?
--
Jim in NC

So your point is that there is no such thing as context?

"Cockpit Colin" wrote:

Firstly, thanks Jay for putting the file up.

Secondly, I have to agree with Martin in that "huge" is somewhat
'relative' - for example, I routinely work with video files in the
range of 13 to 20 Giga bytes, which I think of as normal - so I
tend to think of your 'huge' 14MB as being 'trivial' (took less
than 2 1/2 minutes to download).


....



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