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blondy28- Bova!
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sharpy- Fanboy
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Yea its sad he died so young, but ya know, I could never understand these "amateur" pilots. I'm sorry, but flying a plane, where one little mistake is the end of you, seems to me not to be a "hobby'. That's like saying that someone died b/c they were operating on themselves b/c they were an "amateur surgeon". Something you shouldn't be "amateur' at and expect a good outcome - and piloting a plane is number 1.
blondy28- Bova!
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sharpy wrote:Yea its sad he died so young, but ya know, I could never understand these "amateur" pilots. I'm sorry, but flying a plane, where one little mistake is the end of you, seems to me not to be a "hobby'. That's like saying that someone died b/c they were operating on themselves b/c they were an "amateur surgeon". Something you shouldn't be "amateur' at and expect a good outcome - and piloting a plane is number 1.
Thought something similar when I heard. I was telling my daughter about JFK Jr.'s plane going down, and it's not even the amateur thing that I find problematic...it's the plane itself. I'm sorry, but those small planes just seem terribly unsafe. Yeah, I know...if it's going down, a bigger plane probably isn't going to protect you, but it seems like those tin cans are more likely to go down. If I have money to burn, I own my own plane and have a pilot to fly my ass around.
alohafri- Bova!
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blondy28 wrote:sharpy wrote:Yea its sad he died so young, but ya know, I could never understand these "amateur" pilots. I'm sorry, but flying a plane, where one little mistake is the end of you, seems to me not to be a "hobby'. That's like saying that someone died b/c they were operating on themselves b/c they were an "amateur surgeon". Something you shouldn't be "amateur' at and expect a good outcome - and piloting a plane is number 1.
Thought something similar when I heard. I was telling my daughter about JFK Jr.'s plane going down, and it's not even the amateur thing that I find problematic...it's the plane itself. I'm sorry, but those small planes just seem terribly unsafe. Yeah, I know...if it's going down, a bigger plane probably isn't going to protect you, but it seems like those tin cans are more likely to go down. If I have money to burn, I own my own plane and have a pilot to fly my ass around.
His was kind of an "experimental" plane. I heard someone describe it as a surfboard with wings.
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Or a winged jetski
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SoxIlliniRob wrote:Or a winged jetski
Or a Coffin
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