Yeah, exactly, whinge about the ultralight flying over his mates house when 20 minutes away a GA pilot flies so low he cleans up the power line and kills himself!

There are bad eggs in every basket.

There is a lot of history documented with IFR Charter/RPT descending beyond minimums with catastrophic results.

I don't think the status and qualifications or vehicle of choice is dependant upon the outcome.

Pilots will do what they think they should do irrespective of hindsight or forsight.

So very sad indeed, and we never learn do we?

Yeah, when was the last time we came up with a new way of killing ourselves? 30-40 years ago?

Low Flying @ Trafalgur
 

Dear Guys
My patience with Tralfalgur Aero Club and the associated bs is at an end. No i wasn,t the wannabe in attendance. Winter last year we were a professionall crew and got constantly harrassed by the Aero Club and public.
We had the experience, equipment, liciences, lowlevel experience infact an AG rating and 12 years of experience, and had a job to do.
The politics is all too presush.
Having to explain why the aircraft is too !!! loud to a pedantic saftey officer.?
I tried to explain that noise is good. Silence is NOT.(720)
Think the local economy needs to look at the treatment your C152 instructor wannabes dictate to experienced Pilots.
Trafalgur has nothing going for it apart from pedantic whingers.:=
They have alot to answer for.
Thought they were pro aviation.?
NOT IMPRESSED.
M

Christmas Messages from On High
 

Errrm - Grogmonster, what with HM Christmas Message and the Holy Father from Rome I'm about up to here with sanctimonous pontificating.

So - hoping for a candidate from elsewhere to upstage the late Col P. (GA) or the late Barry H. (GA) were we Grogmonster? :=

Sounds like the idiot from Xmas day repeated.........:ugh:

Accident = Confusing ambition with ability. :=

J

Diesel Fitter, to bring Col Pay into the same sort of catagory as a stupid low flying numpty as you seem fit to have done is illinformed, ignorant, offensive, stupid (attempted) point scoring on par with the most useless of our politicians. There would be VERY few with more experience/competence at those sorts of heights, he certainly held all of the ratings/endos and was operating INSIDE the boundaries of the law. His record is well beyond reproach. I suggest you either delete the post or retract your statement.

I'm not saying that the guy was or wasn't doing the wrong thing, i don't really care and my reference to a 'stupid numpty' was general in nature, not this case in question. But to use Col Pay as an example of GA stupidity makes my blood boil, and does nothing but show us the rest of the post isn't worth paying attention to. I've seen some bad, really bad posts on pprune, but that's the worst (and the first i've ever felt obliged to stand up against).

Really Wandering Dave?

More offensive than Grogmonsters sweeping suggestion that RAA neanderthals should be given enough rope eliminate themselves from this world by Darwinian selection?

I don't think so. It goes well beyond the bounds of acceptable banter.

Subsitute Aboriginals, Muslim, homos, lesbians, Jews, Pakis or Iraqis etc for Grogmonsters RAA pilots and you may gain some understanding of how to be really offensive

Well this was a great thread, wasn't it?

You lot need to work together, not against each other if you want recreational aviation to survive :ugh:

TID