Ballsy waterskiing display
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Ballsy waterskiing display
This dude was showing serious cojones out on the Islands today
https://1drv.ms/v/s!AsUqLYgbkd8en21WuU2U4cyLh72T
https://1drv.ms/v/s!AsUqLYgbkd8en21WuU2U4cyLh72T
Nothing "Ballsy" about that, just a demonstration of really poor PIC decision making.
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Virtually impossible in a nosewheel aircraft due to the dynamics involved, but within limits doable in a taildragger. There's even a demo team that does this regularly in formation, in Harvards.
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Just a bit of fun. His choice. His risk to accept. Move along now.
Flyingmac, you couldn't be more wrong. You simply couldn't.
No. Flyingmac is right, absolutely so. Humans did not progress by refusing risk. Accepting risk complete with its attendant problems, as you so properly pointed out, is a necessary and relevant part of life.
Darwin's survival of the fittest plays its part.
Darwin's survival of the fittest plays its part.
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Have you spoken to any people in the situations I mention? Perhaps you'd like to explain your point of view to them. I have, much more often than I would have preferred to.
There is considered, reasonable, risk-taking. We all understand that.
And there is idiocy: behaviour so likely to kill or injure, and to cause others to take unreasonable risk themselves, and cause them misery, and hurt the public purse, that it is quite beyond the bounds of reasonableness.
There is considered, reasonable, risk-taking. We all understand that.
And there is idiocy: behaviour so likely to kill or injure, and to cause others to take unreasonable risk themselves, and cause them misery, and hurt the public purse, that it is quite beyond the bounds of reasonableness.
I'm an ex serviceman who, during his service was well used to sanctioning risk for others as well as for myself. I'd rather you didn't tell me that beyond a certain point military risk is different to civilian risk. Neither is under duress. Both fulfil a need for the person to test him or herself.
If we do not constantly push the boundaries, we lose the ability to measure and assess risk and consequently and understandably become more likely to become an unwelcome statistic.
If we do not constantly push the boundaries, we lose the ability to measure and assess risk and consequently and understandably become more likely to become an unwelcome statistic.
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There is a very divergent view of what is and is not acceptable risk.
Waterskiing aircraft is in some places comparatively common. If you do not know that, or the aircraft and pilot's capabilities your view of risk may not be accurate - equally neither may theirs.
However the world full of cotton wool version, where no one is ever hurt and no one ever does anything that someone else might think 'risky' is so dull there is little point of being part of it.
Waterskiing aircraft is in some places comparatively common. If you do not know that, or the aircraft and pilot's capabilities your view of risk may not be accurate - equally neither may theirs.
However the world full of cotton wool version, where no one is ever hurt and no one ever does anything that someone else might think 'risky' is so dull there is little point of being part of it.
I have a pal who used to help out with a voluntary mountain rescue outfit in the Lake District. I once asked him what he thought about folk who go fell walking in flip-flops and a T-shirt then get lost when the battery in the GPS fails and the weather closes in. His response was "Great, it's all good practice" which wasn't what I expected, so perhaps if the Cub had had a problem the rescue services mightn't have been too miffed.
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Actually, VG, I never had any fun dragging a body from the water. Don't know anybody who ever enjoyed knocking on a door and telling Mrs Smith that she was now the widow Smith.
And when it goes wrong, what about the people who will take risks trying to rescue him? Swimming down into the water to get him out? The SAR helicopter and its crew, perhaps the lifeboat and its crew? The emergency services whose time will be expended? The hospital bed he'll occupy if he's lucky, and the person who can't be in that bed because he's occupying it? The police officers who'll deliver the news if he's not lucky? The investigators who'll have to try to write up this idiocy without upsetting his relatives? The Procurator Fiscal and Sherriff and others in the coronial process (perhaps)? The cost to society generated by all the above and the premature death of a financially successful person? The effect on his family and loved ones of his premature departure?
Flyingmac, you couldn't be more wrong. You simply couldn't.
Flyingmac, you couldn't be more wrong. You simply couldn't.
would you wear a helmet whilst flying?
If we do not constantly push the boundaries, we lose the ability to measure and assess risk and consequently and understandably become more likely to become an unwelcome statistic.
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I believe that we had this discussion / argument before, regarding the "Ullswater Incident" http://www.pprune.org/private-flying...ot-guilty.html
Not much point in rehashing the same points, I think.
SD
Not much point in rehashing the same points, I think.
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OK
Then , is this the same pilot/aircraft that landed on a road in Scotland , not so long ago ?
I ask because that was a yellow cub as well
Possible character trait being displaced ?
Rgds
Then , is this the same pilot/aircraft that landed on a road in Scotland , not so long ago ?
I ask because that was a yellow cub as well
Possible character trait being displaced ?
Rgds
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