Pilot aiding in police pursuit shot.

[FN FAL]

We are not getting slow. I was just waiting for a comment on "shooting the approach". Actually, I have been shot at and hit, and I'm not talking about South East Asia.

I was shot at and missed, shat at and hit and wiped all over the place...and that was down in South America.

Lower Arkansas, to be exact...but what does that have to do with anything?

 

[Fly_Chick]

You all are providing too much entertainment for a Thursday night! I think I will bring this article out when my students are struggling with landings.

I wish Spicer the best.

From now on my emergeny "scenario" will change from "what will you do if I pass out from carbon monoxide poisoning" to "how will you get back to the airport if I happen to get shot in the head"?

 

[sqwkvfr]

I just thought of something..

....when I was a cop, there was a specific clause in my personal automobile insurance that stated that I could not recover anything from them if my vehicle was damaged as the result of being operated during or for the purposes of a law enforcement function.

I wonder if this guy's insurance company will give him a hard time?

 

[Bart Simpson]

How about shooting an approach into ORD, landing, taxiing, stopping the aircraft and while doing the walk-around, finding two bullet holes in the rudder.
Apparently, we flew over the bad side of Chicago.

 

[Ailerongirl]

Nope. Just last year the FAA removed from under the "Do you now have or have you ever had" section the option to check the box that said "hit in forehead with .44 magnum in flight." Although if that option were indeed still there he could simply check the box and put "previously reported, no change," each year.

Now he's exempt from requiring a medical certificate. After all, if someone can get shot in the forehead and still fly, does anybody really care what other physical maladies might befall him? Seems a rather mute point.

Now he need only self certify that he isn't bleeding all over the aircraft interior, and he can fly with only an expired drivers license.

It's not a quiet point! *sigh* Come on now avbug, I expected better than that from you!

moot: Of no practical importance; irrelevant.

 

[avbug]

Mute; silent or pointless. Before the ever popular "moot," it was "mute," which for my purpose, more accurately describes the intended meaning, the entire and whole purpose of a word.

More than a few language cops have accused me of being old fashioned (or more often, wrong). Too bad.