Dangerous safety seminars
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Dangerous safety seminars
Has anyone got any good stories about safety seminars they attended that they would have been better off avoiding?
I went to a fly in one once. The problem was that several hundred people flew there also - different equipment, different experience levels. They were landing southbound and I approached from the South. I had to extend the downwind - by about five miles
just to fit in with the current traffic. We were turning base over a local lake and final on the far shore of the lake, which was ok, except that we were now about ten degrees off the runway heading.
I followed the preceeding trafic and when I got to short final, he was still rolling out. I certainly didn't want to go around, and I had someone right behind me so couldn't slow down too much. I had to float for a while and still landed just as he was clearing the active.
Then the 'safety seminar' turned out to be mostly a sales pitch for Garmin and the man giving it suggested that we use a 430 slaved to a 530. I looked around the ramp and all I could think was...that'd cost more than a most of these aircraft - without the installation.
It was a waste of time really.
I went to a fly in one once. The problem was that several hundred people flew there also - different equipment, different experience levels. They were landing southbound and I approached from the South. I had to extend the downwind - by about five miles
just to fit in with the current traffic. We were turning base over a local lake and final on the far shore of the lake, which was ok, except that we were now about ten degrees off the runway heading.I followed the preceeding trafic and when I got to short final, he was still rolling out. I certainly didn't want to go around, and I had someone right behind me so couldn't slow down too much. I had to float for a while and still landed just as he was clearing the active.
Then the 'safety seminar' turned out to be mostly a sales pitch for Garmin and the man giving it suggested that we use a 430 slaved to a 530. I looked around the ramp and all I could think was...that'd cost more than a most of these aircraft - without the installation.
It was a waste of time really.
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Did attend a CAA safety event at the local flying club several years ago when the CAA chief medical officer stood up to make a speech & a PPL in the front row had an epileptic fit, talk about bad timing
