On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 06:49:22PM -0400, Ed Kelly wrote:
>
> Its officially called the "Ray Nagin" Approach and has
> always been proven accurate in his city of New Orleans,
> except for once, about five years ago this week.
Yeah, old Ray should have pulled up anchor and moved New Orleans out of
the way. It was his fault that it got hit - if he had panicked enough,
the 'cane would have gone over to Mexico or something.
> I just saw it hit Cat Four. I am a chcken sailor
> and pilot. As one of my IFR trainers taught, "There
> are old Pilots, and there are Bold PIlots, But there are
> no Old Bold Pilots!" <grin>
There are certainly more old bold pilots - I learned to fly a
taildragger from one, who was still passing physicals and doing
aerobatics at 73 - than there are old cowardly ones; planes don't put up
with panic any more than boats do, and there's less time to correct for
it. Just ask that crew out of Delhi that lost their artificial horizon,
and the captain panicked... oh, right, you can't. They're on the bottom
of the ocean. Whoops. Well, maybe it'll work better for the next guy who
panics and starts running around like a headless chicken.
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