Can someone please explain what FTDK mean
Wheatbix - Well, its like this!
The aeroplane I fly is the classic V-tail (
Forktailed) Bonanza. This particular type has a history of being bought by persons with high disposable incomes, like Doctors (
Doctor). However, some of these people don't take the time to get an appropriate level of training to go with this high performance aircraft. As a result, they have flown themselves into circumstances beyond their abilities, and as a result their lifecycles have ended (
Killer).
"The V-tail configuration of the vertical stabilizer in the resulted in the plane being dubbed the "fork-tailed doctor killer" because of the propensity of wealthy doctors with large egos and low hours to stuff their beautiful A35's into hillsides."
Here's another take on it:
"Doctors are busy yet determined people. The kind of folk who don't really have time to get a PPL, but manage to squeeze one in because they're also generally good at time management. So substitue the usual caveat of low hours for lowest hours possible to be a pilot. Doctors are generally wealthier than the average, yet not stupidly wealthy and so when they buy their aircraft, tend to think in terms of price/performance and buy the fastest thing their budget will afford - because as we've already mentioned they are very busy and want to get where they are going. You're in your late forties. You've just proven to yourself that you can do anything by learning to fly. You promised your daughter you'd be home for her baseball game and your son you'd be home for his recital, your Bonanza is fuelled up and waiting to go. You've visited this patient three times before, so you know the route and haven't really bothered to do the annoying paperwork of planning all that fully this time. The weather is looking a little grey and close (if you notice it at all). Do you: (a) fly home or (b) dissapoint your family yet again by phoning your partner: "The weather is marginal darling, I'm going to stay overnight here." (In the town your partner knows a highschool sweetheart of yours is now living...) Yep. You choose (a). You fly home.
"In local news, respected doctor and philanthropist your name here was killed today when his/her light aircraft crashed into Mt. Hightop in heavy fog. Investigators say that the cause of the crash is not yet clear, but they have not ruled out pilot error.""
The V-tailed Bonanza's place as the killer of Doctors has now largely been taken by the Lancair but some suggest the Cirrus is a worthy successor!
Dr 