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Old 13th Jun 2012, 06:36
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If this doesn't give you 'goosebumps'.....

Someone sent me a link to this site for another reason, but had to go to 'FLYING'.........

Amazing Pilot Recovers Aircraft


Just a quick browse, but have added this site to my 'favorites' right-off........
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Old 13th Jun 2012, 07:18
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Matt Hall is one of the finest pilots in the world as you’ll see when he pulls off an amazing recovery during a Red Bull Air Race. He needed all his skill and training as a pilot to survive what should have been a crash during the fourth stage of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship 2010 on qualifying day in Windsor.
"finest pilots", "all his skill and training" resulted in him putting it in the drink in the first place.
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Wasn't it a few near-catastrophes like this that resulted in the Red Bull Air Race series being cancelled?
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An amazing recovery certainly, but surely the worlds greatest pilot wouldn't have made the cock and flown himself into the water...
What a load of bolleaux.

The fella made a mistake like anyone can in a race and was staggeringly lucky to get away with it. He may be the worlds best pilot, who knows, but this incident certainly didn't prove or indeed even suggest anything of the kind. Sorry.
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An amazing recovery certainly, but surely the worlds greatest pilot wouldn't have made the cock and flown himself into the water...What a load of bolleaux.

The fella made a mistake like anyone can in a race and was
staggeringly lucky to get away with it. He may be the worlds best pilot, who knows, but this incident certainly didn't prove or indeed even suggest anything of the kind. Sorry.
I agree; he did well to recover the situation, however if he is the worlds greatest pilot why did he allow himself to get into that postion in the first place
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Old 13th Jun 2012, 15:34
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What is it they used to say? Something like:

"A superior pilot is one who uses his superior judgement to avoid those situations which would require him to use his superior flying skills"

.... hmmmmm

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"A superior pilot is one who uses his superior judgement to avoid
those situations which would require him to use his superior flying
skills
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....errr....no

A superior pilot is one who is able to use his superior skills to avoid situations which would otherwise require the use of those skills.

MY RAF flight safety design !!
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There are "Old Pilots" and there are "Bold Pilots" but there are no "Old Bold Pilots" flying like that he won't be around for much longer, extremely lucky to be alive.

If he is "so superior" he would know better than to put himself into a situation like that and lose control of an aircraft by stalling it at low altitude, but then to advertise such a cockup on the internet as being a hero, well,

Idiot springs to mind not superior

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Very true!

This "superb" pilot flew the aeroplane into an accelerated stall close to the ground.



Professionals don't do that.

I have 1850 hours on this.....................


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Yes, we all know

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I have 1850 hours on this.....................

In awe, admiration and worship at your humility as such a paragon of a superior sky-god.

Just hold my head while I Puuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuke.

Crabs! There's nothing else remotely like them on earth, is there? Thank Christ.
(Apart from Madonna.)


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I have 1850 hours on this.....................
Is that all
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Apart from Madonna.
- blimey - has she got crabs?
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quote 1850 hrs too much trumpet to much blowing
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....err yes LM.....!

Frank Frederick Borman, II (born March 14, 1928) is a retired NASA astronaut and engineer, best remembered as the Commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the Moon, making him, along with fellow crew mates Jim Lovell and Bill Anders, the first of only 24 humans to do so. He was also the chief executive officer of Eastern Air Lines from 1975 to 1986. He is a recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.

Quote from Borman: A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.
...OK, that's only Wiki, but there are many separate similar sources on t'internet.

But then (by an amazing coincidence) I have exactly the same number of Jaguar hours as Frank Borman ..... ie None! (but quite a few on other stuff)

Teeters (definitely NOT a bold pilot ......)

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The only 'goosebumps' I get are there because people on PPrune are suggesting this man is a good pilot.

Was he the only one in the race that managed to recover from the 'hit the water' part of the race, or did the other competitors somehow manage to avoid the water altogether?
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NEVER the best pilot in the world - just a very very lucky one.
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