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To: pabianice
Reportedly, new rules will ban any private pilot from demonstrating how to fly to any passengers. Insanity.

Not sure I agree with you. In 1995, I was flying a plane back from Asia. Mid flight of an incredibly smooth flight, the plane fell over a mile. Many passengers were injured(4 ambulances met the plane). However there was absolutely no press covers whatsoever. The next year I picked up a copy of the book "Airframe" by Michael Crichton. The flight it described was so similar to what I experienced that I was shocked. In the book the cause was the pilot turning the controls over to a relative just for fun.

One time I was a passenger on a very small two-seater plane. The pilot tried to get me to take the controls and I had to scream at him not to do this.

It really is not appropriate to try and show someone how to fly unless you are not an instructor and they actually want to learn.

83 posted on 04/15/2009 8:42:31 AM PDT by w1andsodidwe (Jimmy Carter(the Godfather of Terror) allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
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To: w1andsodidwe
In 1995, I was flying a plane back from Asia. Mid flight of an incredibly smooth flight, the plane fell over a mile. Many passengers were injured(4 ambulances met the plane).

And the difference between a Private Pilot and a Commercial Pilot is...........

103 posted on 04/15/2009 9:42:19 AM PDT by Sarajevo (You jealous because the voices only talk to me.)
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