> I take it that you personally know this
> person and that she/he is not
> used to flying at small fields?
> Characterizing anyone who holds an ATP
> rating as inexperienced and incapable
> of flying at small airports is no
> different than characterizing all ultralight
> pilots as a bunch of
> untrained red-neck hill-billies who have
> no real aeronautical knowledge.
> I supposed when I get my ATP next year
> you'll say the same of me? Or
> the many ATPs I have on my staff who now
> fly and teach in LSAs for a living?
> Helen
I'd say this is a good learning opportunity.
Get all those ATPs and Instructors together in one room.
Get them to agree on the plan.
The situation:
That particular airport....
That particular plane....
With it's engine known to have just been replaced....
The challenge:
To test fly it in such a way, that if the engine fails
within the first 20 minutes, we can glide to a safe landing.
By the time they are finished they will have a -good- plan.
And I'm sure if the ATP guy who crashed in St Augustine
could have been in on this plan, he would have done okay.
Mike
PS: I don't have to critize that poor pilot
and don't believe I did.
As Jim likes to say, the event was self-critiquing.
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