I said it then when we were discussing this accident....and I say it again now....this lady is welcome to sit at my end of the bar and I will buy the beer. She recovered from a very bad situation and is honest enough to talk about it and do so in a manner that is designed to help others learn from her mistakes.
You hairy legged neanderthals that look down your big noses at her just might be the very ones that need to learn from her teachings. Anyone that has worked in this industry past about week one.....has at some point done something on par with her experience of that night....and except for the good graces of the Almighty would have been in just as bad...or worse predicament.
You want to point fingers and say "Not me...never happen to me....uh uh Bubba...I am too good for that".....Hang On! Your turn is coming.
When it does...I hope you have the ability to cope with the situation as well as she did....and the courage to step forward later and use it to help others.
My hat is off to her....she is a professional in my book.
You that are so critical of her need to quit using your belly buttons for peepholes in my opinion.
Thomas Coupling....
Your post was in dreadfully bad taste I suggest. I am sure if you have progressed to Week Two of your flying career, you will have done things you wish you had not done or would have done altogether differently. Maybe you ought to think about that when criticizing others.
Flying nights in bad weather in the mountains has got to be about as risky a kind of flying we do....and as an EMS pilot there is a great deal of pressure to get the job done. The EMS accident rate for such operations is not very good...at least this Lady is trying to do something positive by offering a public examination of how she came to be such a situation as occurred that night.
I personally think you owe her an apology.
Last edited by SASless; 27th January 2006 at 18:23.