Oh how naive you are.
Anyone can hop in the wheel-house and spin the fan.
Ask Captain (and I use that term with the highest RESPECT) Richard de Crespigny if it isn't all that hard?

The recent fatality of the female station owner in her R22 comes to mind.

Refuellers too!

DF.

Especially refuellers!:ok:

They generally also know all the goings on, intrigue etc long before most Pilots.:hmm:

Dogcharlie
No need to get personal..
I'm not talking about experience or extraordinary pilots or pilots who have a number of things go in their favor in an emergency- being an avid follower of that particular incident id say that sully and the crew had all three in spades. There's been plenty of excellent pilots who haven't had the latter, and are no longer here to tell the story
I'm talking about conducting and approaching every flight in a professional manner. That is not that hard..

Pilots like to think they're somehow special and different probably to offset the ridiculous financial hoops required to get there , but we're not. It's just a skill and a job that happens to be a little different and in my opinion pretty good fun for the most part.

I don't no how some of you guys criticize Wayne's flyin skills most if not all of you guys didn't no the man, he wasn't mustering the cattle as the news said he was spotting for blokes on the ground.
As for the crash no one knows what happened SO KEEP YOUR MOUTHS SHUT.

As for VH-XXX I've never met you but you sound like a complete and utter (unt.

Thanks mate, look forward to meeting you too. Read again, I said nothing derogatory, did not comment on flying skills and I'm genuinely sorry for you that you feel that way.

Luke,

You may be right, in that nobody knows what happened just yet, but I can assure you, despite the personal sadness affecting ones view of the world, the vast majority of accidents that I read about here, the obvious turns out to be true.

In this case I am not making any statement, I doubt anyone else is yet either. But to come on here blasting away like this is not doing your cause any good either.

I have lost good mates, damned near family all through their own cock ups, and I am the first to accept this. Emotional rants about my cousin is such a good pilot but now dead isn't his fault ...bla bla bla... Does not cut it. I accept this and if you read the Airnoth prang report, I can tell you close to home where that one rests. And it is not in my emotiotional favour.

Time for a deep breath mate. I know where you are.....sort of.:ok:

Jabawocky
The obvious isn't the truth in this case (from what ive been told from his wife's brother, they where Neighboirs) but thanks mate I've had the deep breath.

Sorry, but I just don't get it!

There is a tragic accident (even the stupid ones are tragic) - and next thing someone who has never posted on this forum before turns up and goes all howlibag cause the pilots on a pilots forum are talking about it.

What the @#$% did you expect?

I find your previous post to be most offensive - please remove it - and piss off!

Dr :8

PS: Most of us who have been around a while have lost friends in stupid accidents.

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Yeah, right... except so often the muppets get it wrong, dont they..:rolleyes:

Seems some here thrive on others misery..:hmm:







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Luke Demmo, dont take any cr@p from the muppets - they is often wrong..;)





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Luke and I have discussed off line so we are all good.

Binghi, not the time or place to push your personal agenda with those that you frequently disagree with.

We need to remember that these discussions are usually very early in the piece, we don't know who is involved and we discuss possible scenarios of what happened, long before we know the skills of the pilot. It could be a 50 hour PPL or a 10000 hour ATPL and of course things get said that on the face of it may upset others once the identities of those involved are known. Other than not talk about it at all, there is little that can be done to avoid this, other than be polite, respectful and keep comments to aircraft, weather and the available facts at the time.