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Post #107,542
by deSitter
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6/27/03 12:04:38 PM
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New Re: "Failure to maintain altitude" will get you every time.
I always liked "CFIT" - controlled flight into terrain.

Happens a lot.
-drl
Post #107,976
by mmoffitt
6/30/03 11:55:39 PM
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New The biggest one is...
continued VFR into IMC. That's a hell of a lot easier to do than you might expect. First family XC about a month ago. Was trying to make it to Six Flags near Cleveland. Got withing 29 NM and it got shitty. Ceilings kept dropping, there I am with my entire family aboard and the thought did cross my mind, "Hell, I'll be there in 15 minutes, I can keep going even if I am only 600 AGL and 400 below MEL". Thankfully, those thoughts didn't stay in my head more than a few seconds before I realized, "This is fucking crazy. What the hell am I doing?" and I 180'd and landed. But it was tempting even for me. I learned a damned good lesson that day. There really is a "get-home-itis", even for low time pilots like me. Dangerous stuff.
bcnu,
Mikem

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice and always has been...We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had-- the individual's right to oppose both flag and country when he (just he, by himself) believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism.

- Mark Twain, "Monarchical and Republican Patriotism"
     Happiness is.. - (deSitter) - (24) - June 23, 2003, 11:25:23 PM EDT
         Hey, you be careful with that thing - (tuberculosis) - (23) - June 26, 2003, 01:36:58 PM EDT
             Two things - (drewk) - (7) - June 26, 2003, 01:51:50 PM EDT
                 There are times... - (folkert) - (6) - June 26, 2003, 02:05:31 PM EDT
                     Re: There are times... - (deSitter) - (5) - June 26, 2003, 02:22:01 PM EDT
                         Yes... - (folkert) - (4) - June 26, 2003, 03:26:10 PM EDT
                             They must have been *really* moving - (drewk) - (3) - June 26, 2003, 04:08:51 PM EDT
                                 Oohhh___ bench racing - (Ashton) - June 26, 2003, 04:58:59 PM EDT
                                 Yep... - (folkert) - (1) - June 26, 2003, 05:21:25 PM EDT
                                     Too bad - (drewk) - June 26, 2003, 05:57:46 PM EDT
             Re: Hey, you be careful with that thing - (deSitter) - June 26, 2003, 02:17:11 PM EDT
             Re: Motorcycles is dangerous I think - (mmoffitt) - (13) - June 26, 2003, 09:36:50 PM EDT
                 Well, there are folks on waiting lists for liver transplants - (a6l6e6x) - (2) - June 26, 2003, 10:10:38 PM EDT
                     As I tell my client . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - June 27, 2003, 12:06:34 AM EDT
                         Guzzis are nice - (deSitter) - June 27, 2003, 12:15:52 AM EDT
                 flying presents zero risk - (boxley) - (5) - June 27, 2003, 08:31:25 AM EDT
                     "Failure to maintain altitude" will get you every time. :) -NT - (a6l6e6x) - (3) - June 27, 2003, 11:16:44 AM EDT
                         Re: "Failure to maintain altitude" will get you every time. - (deSitter) - (1) - June 27, 2003, 12:04:38 PM EDT
                             The biggest one is... - (mmoffitt) - June 30, 2003, 11:55:39 PM EDT
                         That, and excessive air in the fuel tanks ;-) -NT - (bbronson) - June 27, 2003, 12:26:22 PM EDT
                     A) Speed B) Altitude Pick one. - (mmoffitt) - June 30, 2003, 11:48:16 PM EDT
                 Jumper scientist friend - (tuberculosis) - (3) - June 27, 2003, 04:03:24 PM EDT
                     Re: Jumper scientist friend - (deSitter) - (2) - June 27, 2003, 04:50:12 PM EDT
                         Stupidity - (tuberculosis) - (1) - June 28, 2003, 12:13:26 AM EDT
                             Huh. Interesting. - (mmoffitt) - June 30, 2003, 11:46:49 PM EDT

If for no other reason that historical (hysterical?) context.
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