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If you were this pilot, would you ever get back in the cockpit??

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Phil

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 11:10:08 -0700 (PDT), Phil J
wrote:

If you were this pilot, would you ever get back in the cockpit??

With only forty hours in two years, it doesn't appear that he got into
the cockpit very often.

Larry Dighera wrote in
:

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 11:10:08 -0700 (PDT), Phil J
wrote:

If you were this pilot, would you ever get back in the cockpit??

With only forty hours in two years, it doesn't appear that he got into
the cockpit very often.



Good god, you have a talent for missing the point.

Ya know. when I tuned into this group first. I reckoned you to be one of
the steadier heads in it. Srt of a "father's knows best" type figure.
Now I just think you're crazy.


Bertie

Phil J wrote:
If you were this pilot, would you ever get back in the cockpit??

http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?C...f95e2207910&#d


I probably would, but I think I'd try wearing a seat belt the next time.



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com

On Apr 5, 5:56*pm, "Mortimer Schnerd, RN" mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com
wrote:
Phil J wrote:
If you were this pilot, would you ever get back in the cockpit??

http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?C...e64-5fec-4034-....

I probably would, but I think I'd try wearing a seat belt the next time.

--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com

He was wearing it, but he somehow managed to 1) go to full throttle,
2) throw the controls to the left, and 3) snag his seat belt buckle
and unlatch it - all at the same time. Not a good thing in an
airplane without doors. If I was him, I think I might get the feeling
that someone up there doesn't want me to fly!

Phil

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 16:04:00 -0700 (PDT), Phil J
wrote:

He was wearing it, but he somehow managed to 1) go to full throttle,
2) throw the controls to the left, and 3) snag his seat belt buckle
and unlatch it - all at the same time. Not a good thing in an
airplane without doors.

He must have been mighty low to have not suffered significant injury
in the fall.

On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:25:18 GMT, Larry Dighera wrote:

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 16:04:00 -0700 (PDT), Phil J
wrote:

He was wearing it, but he somehow managed to 1) go to full throttle,
2) throw the controls to the left, and 3) snag his seat belt buckle
and unlatch it - all at the same time. Not a good thing in an
airplane without doors.

He must have been mighty low to have not suffered significant injury
in the fall.

AvWeb quotes a local newspaper interview with the pilot, which says "...a
pontoon hit the water, and somehow he accidentally released the buckle of his
safety harness." Sounds like it wasn't much of a vertical drop, but the
horizontal component would have been fun....

Ron Wanttaja

Larry Dighera wrote in
:

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 16:04:00 -0700 (PDT), Phil J
wrote:

He was wearing it, but he somehow managed to 1) go to full throttle,
2) throw the controls to the left, and 3) snag his seat belt buckle
and unlatch it - all at the same time. Not a good thing in an
airplane without doors.

He must have been mighty low to have not suffered significant injury
in the fall.


What are you, the "low" police ?

(audience applaud now)


berie

sounds like he was on take off, it was an amphibian
B

"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 16:04:00 -0700 (PDT), Phil J
wrote:

He was wearing it, but he somehow managed to 1) go to full throttle,
2) throw the controls to the left, and 3) snag his seat belt buckle
and unlatch it - all at the same time. Not a good thing in an
airplane without doors.

He must have been mighty low to have not suffered significant injury
in the fall.

Phil J wrote:
On Apr 5, 5:56 pm, "Mortimer Schnerd, RN" mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com
wrote:
Phil J wrote:
If you were this pilot, would you ever get back in the cockpit??
http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?C...e64-5fec-4034-...
I probably would, but I think I'd try wearing a seat belt the next time.

--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com

He was wearing it, but he somehow managed to 1) go to full throttle,
2) throw the controls to the left, and 3) snag his seat belt buckle
and unlatch it - all at the same time. Not a good thing in an
airplane without doors. If I was him, I think I might get the feeling
that someone up there doesn't want me to fly!

Well, I'm personally pretty skeptical of some aspects of this story and
the accidentally released seat belt is one of them.

Matt