Aviation is cruel and unforgiving.
I believe there are 4 types of pilots...
1. those that won't scare themselves sh!tless because they have learned from someone else's mistakes/experience (unfortunately this group is probably relatively small),
2. those that have scared themselves sh!tless and learn from the experience,
3. those that have yet to scare themelves sh!tless and will learn from the experience,
4. lastly those that have yet to scare themselves sh!tless and won't survive to learn from the experience.
I fall into the second category.
There but for the grace of God.....(and I'm not at all religious!)
RIP
PS...I guess unfortunately there's another group...those that are just idiots and won't learn no matter what happens!!
PPS...I am in no way suggesting that the pilot in this case fell into any particular category...that is up to the investigator to determine.
Last edited by slackie; 25th Jul 2009 at 21:38.
Reason: added PS...and PPS!