The_Russian
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DC4boy said:Yeah Rat him out.. Thats good.
Now I'm not exactly old school, and am probably in the age group with the majority of you (26) or older, but when I started flying my instructor told me about reg's and rules etc.., but, the only one he emphasized on was not in the regs or available at the FSDO.
NEVER RAT OUT ANOTHER PILOT. PERIOD.
Immelman, that kind of talk is grounds for dismissal...
DC4boy said:Like said, never rat out another PILOT!
The_Russian said:I think this thread blew up faster than any PFT thread in the history of FlightInfo.
Guys frickin' relax before someone has a stroke.
Metro752 said:Kinda like not ratting out the guy who pulls out of a bar at 1am in front of ya, nearly hit em, and the you're behind him for the next 60 miles, 50 of which are on an interstate and he's all over the road....................
right?
Just leave the guy alone, hopefully he won't kill someone..........someone you love........
Hey we can go a step further, and really go overboard.............how about not doing anything about stinky Jihad Joe who just wanted to learn how to take off. Just a crazy guy with a lot of money, right?
DC4boy said:Like said, never rat out another PILOT!
DC4boy said:Go to him before you go to the authority's. That how it should be in life as well as aviation.
See and avoid, F' the radio. YOU're in control, go around, go wide, whatever. It really was not that unsafe. Least I didnt think so. Then again, I look in the pattern
Xav8tor said:What possible excuse does anyone have for not using all feasible means to maintain merely a reasonable level of safety, much less a high one?
What do you do if someone does that to you in a car on the road? You get really pi$$ed yell and probably use a gesture that we all know well.
Long time lurker, first time post. I have a "little" bit of experience in aviation safety and regulatory compliance. The ag pilot was unsafe and broke the regs.
avbug,
Recently the respect I once had for you has been going down the drain, and you've just hit rock bottom. Usually you're the first one to advocate safety, what happened to this here?
According to the only information we have, the ag pilot did *not* remain clear and give way to aircraft conforming the the traffic pattern.
Some of us are a little above that...gave it up along with childhood years ago. You should try the same.
Over the next hour, I listened to pilot after pilot whine, argue, cry, and kibbitz on the radio, making accusations about "you cut me off," and this nasty remark and that. Each one a fractional or corporate professional aviator, biting and seething at one another, each fighting over who got to get to the runway first. Not a whole lot different than the story that mattpilot told, except no ag aviator as the scape goat here.
The original poster seems so confident that an ungodly disaster was imminent that by his own admission he began making radio calls on behalf of the ag pilot...a ridiculously stupid act, but one that he felt compelled to do.
I'm a big advocate for safety...
aucfi said:Sounds like he was increasing safety to me by giving others a heads up. Hows that stupid?
DC4boy said:PCL, perhaps your're missing his point. Too many pilots use radios as a primary source of traffic collision avoidance. When in fact, there are still several airplanes and pilots that do not use radios, and behold, traffic remains separated.
Course, that probably does'nt happen much outside the cockpit of your RJ.......