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I see from today's press that there is reason to be concerned: i.e. Relatives of 5 Flight Crew members of the ill fated Concorde, have filed against Continental Air Lines, and Goodyear. What ever happened to "See and avoid." Wayne Woollard N6596Q Georgia Trehey wrote: > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- > > Lellie, > > I've had some thoughts along the same lines myself. No one of us will > ever know for sure exactly what happened but there certainly are plenty of > hints. And personally, I suspect that he was getting undue pressure from > his wife and his sister-in-law, without them truly realizing what they > were asking. I think the accident was the culmination of the stack of > dominoes going down. Perhaps one or two of the dominoes stacked against > him would of been OK, but when there's a whole line of them and they start > to fall... I keep thinking about the term PIC. Pilot IN CHARGE. It is up > to her/him to make the decisions, even if that is unpopular with everybody > else. Part of my theory is that John's desire to be "nice" got him > killed. It's very sad. OK, so I'm just a student, but I'm not stupid and > I do understand human behavior pretty well. I do understand the urge to > be accomodating to others, especially siginificant others. But there is a > time and place for that. > > Not ot make light of this tragic accident but to add some humor to the PIC > thing, I'd like to quote what Martha King says in one of the > training videos. "As Pilot In Charge, you have to learn to say NO! to > your passengers. No, you cannot take your 200lb wood burning stove in the > plane with you." :-) > > Spook > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, N161LH 3B9 wrote: > > > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- > > > > Believe me, Dick, I am about the last person in the world to defend the > > Kennedys. I'm an old time New Englander, and as far as I'm concerned, Joe > > Kennedy was a no-good bootlegger who bought his heirs a political empire. > > > > That said, the day Kennedy went down was a lot like today, and plenty of > > people went up. It was VRF legal. It's just that the folks who've been > > around here for a while know that days like today (hot, hazy, humid) rapidly > > degrade into fog, or something mighty close to it after dark -- especially > > over water. I'll fly at night, but not over water. True, he made a whole > > bunch of rotten decisions. And one of them was that he was late going, and > > it sounds to me like he was getting some pressure from his passengers that > > he didn't handle well. > > > > So...while I'm willing to assume arrogance since I pretty much think all the > > Kennedys are arrogant, nobody forced anybody to do anything. As a matter of > > fact, nobody forced her to marry a rich, arrogant, jerk in the first place. > > He didn't do anything illegal, so it's hard for me to understand how they > > can sue. If we start suing for every case of bad judgement, the court > > system will buckle under the weight. > > > > Leslie Holbrook > > Alon A2 N161LH (Flying Colors #1) > > Chester, CT 3B9 > -- Mr. D. Wayne Woollard, CPBE AIM: DWWoollard ICQ: 124132836 "Why fly a Spam can when you can have fun and fly an Ercoupe?" ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aVxiLm.aVzvvT Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
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