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Old 21st Jan 2007, 06:45
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Ignition Override
 
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Sqwak7700:

You might be new on the Pprune website.

There are many experienced pilots here who, based upon not just their experience levels but also on their searching for factors which contributed to accidents, want to help broaden the big picture behind many accidents. This might help the rest of us better anticipate what can go wrong either at a given airport or in a new situation.
These seem to be in the majority (although at first glance, other non-pilots often want you to believe that they are pilots).

There can be a very tiny minority of real pilots who appear to have been, based upon their comments, never involved in any accident, incident, nor even a mistake. Truly super-human, apparently able to fly for 30 hours without a mistake in planning, c0ckpit 'flow-patterns', crew-coordination or judgement. Not just a "5-striper", but maybe wearing 6 strips.
Most impressive-at least from the anonymity of a distant computer monitor and keyboard.

Of course this impression is only based upon their comments on Pprune by way of their ability to quickly and accurately judge others by excluding any and all external factors, including correct Jepp. charting or not.
We continue to be impressed by this unprecedented ability to avoid any mistakes, under whichever conditions.

The books which I've found interesting, i.e. "Fate Is The Hunter" (Gann), "Flying The Hump" etc, were written by superior pilots who enjoyed long and colorful careers, but admitted to some mistakes, and avoided the self-centered desire to appear superior to all other fellow pilots. The late Len Morgan also wrote valuable books.
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