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To: EveningStar

The guy needs to lose his pilots license. He’s a hazard to aviation.


6 posted on 04/13/2011 12:00:42 PM PDT by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: saganite
Don't you know who I am?


7 posted on 04/13/2011 12:02:56 PM PDT by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
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To: saganite
Hazards in aviation have a way of taking care of themselves. It's not a wise thing to combine your professional life and assume your own pilot duties. Each requires 100% of your attention and concentration in the planning, operational, and wrap up phases. You cannot be adequately prepared for both.

I used to be in defense contracting and used to make deliveries if we were late on some finished goods. I remember spending two days machining parts, assembling, testing, painting, and then I would kick the tires and go, landing @ rural virginia airports at the midnight hours where the customer was waiting. One strip had no lighting. We had the guy park his truck shining his lights down the strip so we knew it's threshold. I took off in a Baron one night after getting a phone call that a circuit board had failed in a component we provided. I had to have a new board there in three hours. I didn't check the weather, filed in the air, and almost ran out of fuel on approach to land. The look on the fuel guy's face when we topped off to leave was scary. You do dumb things when trying to make people happy, and that's life in politics.

15 posted on 04/13/2011 12:18:36 PM PDT by blackdog (The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
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