I guess I'd still like to fly. But there's nothing practical about it in the NYC area if one doesn't maintain IFR currency, which is a real burden. My wife never liked flying so we didn't take many trips together. Mostly I would fly for business and back and forth to Nantucket where my family summered when the kids were young. After Nantucket went away and the business flights were mostly 1000 miles plus, I just didn't have a practical reason to continue.
I think you are wrong about the incident in question. The Boeing PASSED the Cessna while it was on final. (Yes. I know there are parallel runways.) The Boeing is an experimental craft, or it should be. It is the obligation of the overtaking aircraft not to overtake if it creates a dangerous cituation, and it is certainly the obligation of the tower not to allow such conditions to occur. But he probably didn't want to tell the big, powerful, Boeing to go around. So he almost killed someone instead.
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I think your explanation about the controller not wanting to isssue a go around makes lots of sense. It's not too difficult to visualize the turbulance settling down onto the Cessna.
So you'd put blame on tower, Ok,
My C.F.I. lived in west Mass. Would fly to the cape with a few buddies on weekends and a few other friends would go in another plane. His buddy had a i.f.r. ticket and would get there often first cause of fog in the morning. He'd get to the cape later after fog lifted and the best looking girls had already been smoozed by the other guys. so it was a good reason to study for his i.f.r. ticket.
He is now flying commercial. :)