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Old 19th Sep 2011, 07:52
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mary meagher
 
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Hello, Chubby Chopper, and welcome to the forum.

I'm sure you have read all of the useful thread on the Reno disaster.

But if pilots wait for the official accident report to be published, we usually wait more than a year! and then it can be less than transparent, as I can testify from my own experience. The exchange of information on this forum is often useful, and much more immediate in effect once you have sifted the wheat from the chaff. Which the mods do a fairly decent job in doing from day to day. When an official report is published, the chaff remains in print forever, unchallenged. I could give a couple of examples; we observed a 180 pilot stuff his aircraft into the hedge at our field, returning in terrible weather when we had ceased flying because of poor viz. He chose to land where his wife was waiting with the car, rather than proceed to a better alternate.

Read the accident report? he wrote most of it!
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