So true - I had 525 hrs when I orchestrated the bit of stupidity detailed above! :eek:

250 hrs....
 

Tony m3...and new CPLs are turned lose at low hours and little real world experience. No wonder they go off and in some cases, kill a few people...paying passengers at that !!

While there may be instances of LUCK...ie yr engine crapped out within gliding distance of a nice airfield...t'aint always the case.

In yr very early days one is IGNORANT..I know I was. because I hadnt yet had the experiences/frights/practical lessons on how not to feature in The Crash Comic
Some CPLs I once new never got that far, tragically.

My view....
If lessons learned and noted, one might pass thru the 'dangerous/ ignorant' phase and later enter the dangerous/knowlegeable phase. Done it before. too easy.

Been there done that, and moved on to a later phase which was researched in the USA. Older pilots, with good hours, owner/operators, having had a good run thus far become complacent and some unknown will pop up and bite hard.

The old Air Safety Digest was THE great educator for me. Read and digest OK, because if you dont heed the lessons of others, the earth may smite thee...wrongly.
CFIT is a case in point. How many have done it, how many have read about those that did it , and how many will go out and do it ? !!:mad:

My VFR mantra was ...know yr machine and all its foibles and KNOW thy weather. And fly with the ultimate aim of NOT to feature in the Crash Comic.:ok:
Fly safe y'all.

Dubbleyew eight:
You are so right. LEDs would be the go these days. :ok:
I grew up with flare pots, took hours to fill them up with kero, drive down the strip with the trailer and put them out, do flight planning and briefing then down the strip again and light them. Do the navex and wonder how many are still lit when you get back, or how many acres burned out!:eek:
Later I assisted in installing proper electric lights with pal. council paid luckily!
I would think it would be not too expensive to do a private strip with LEDs.

Is this a misprint, headlights facing the approaching aircraft would certainly blind him as to what was directly in front of him, i.e. trees?

Seriously?

Anyway RIP and there but for the grace of God go a lot of us.

Bad Luck
 

He'd had a fair share of bad luck in aircraft, he was just about to take possession of his 210 again after another wheels up incident, the stand in 22 was in fact for sale.

This little black duck won't be going that way :cool:

Bad luck ya reckon? :cool:

Risk assessment
 

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A simple Worksafe style risk assessment could help to prevent this type of tragedy.

Not a good track record it seems, but not bad luck from what I have read.

I'm with Bentleg.

I went back to the link to try again to read the report but the computer I`m using here has a Japanese operating system (Precise Puppy; version 5.7.1 and no I`m not kidding!!:=) which for some reason when I click on any link displays the report etc in a very small font and deletes every letter I, L, and some B and A.

Makes it virtually impossible to read anything, so I still cannot make any sense of it.:ugh:

bentleg; PM me about it, willya please?

This accident was totally avoidable, very sad to read these kind of reports where people have been killed where pliots have completely ignored common sense and blaitently distrgarded the rules. I recently read another stupid report where a pilot done a beat up and hit a power line and killed himsellf in Queensland. The impacts of these kind of events where people knowingly do stupid acts in aircraft must be devastating for the families and close friends of the people involved.

This style of behaviour also puts a real negative effect on the industry that we don't deserve and certainly don't want.

pinky
precise puppy is a japanese version of linux

Sorry dubbleyew eight but I don`t even know what linux is anyway. Regardless, the flamin` system won`t let me access my e-mails either!:mad:

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