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Greg, In my opinion an instrument rating does not only give you right to fly IFR (if current), its first commitment is giving you the ability to make a decision, "am I competent to make the flight in these conditions" and too many people with the rating are sometimes not competent to do so. Bob Parker Mena, AR. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Bullough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David Abrams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 6:13 PM Subject: RE: Fw: [COUPERS-FLYIN] Gyros > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- > > > At 09:37 AM 8/4/02 -0400, David Abrams wrote: > >You do not need a conspiracy to get yourself killed out here. You just need > >to have poor judgment. The real injustice was not that JJ wanted to take > >foolhardy chances, it was that two people who had no idea of his extreme > >tolerance for risk were with him. > > I'd tend to believe that it was ignorance, with a measure of hubris, that > did him in, not 'risk tolerance' per se. The problem is that we do a good > job of telling people about 1000 feet and three miles or one mile or 500 > or 1000 feet this way or that from clouds. But we do a lousy job of > explaining to pilots that there is such a thing as several times or even > ten times the legal minimums in which a VFR pilot shouldn't be flying. > You don't need a bloody great fog bank or a giant cumulo-nimbus to > kill yourself in. 8 miles in haze and smoke and a good dose of dark > and absence of ground references will take care of that just fine. > > You can be very very legal until you are very very dead. > > Some CFI's explain that. Unfortunately, I'm afraid that a number of > time-building 22-year-old CFIs don't even know it themselves. > > Greg > > ================================================================== > TO UNSUBSCRIBE go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm > > > > ================================================================== TO UNSUBSCRIBE go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
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