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- Path: sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!darwin.sura.net!lhc!masys
- From: masys@nlm.nih.gov (Dr. Daniel R. Masys)
- Subject: Re: The home field accident...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.171828.20532@nlm.nih.gov>
- Organization: National Library of Medicine
- References: <1992Nov20.154051.27951@b30.ingr.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 17:18:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.154051.27951@b30.ingr.com> medin@catbyte.b30.ingr.com writes:
- ...an account of a brand new pilot killing self and friends in an
- overloaded 172.
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- I recall that as a young, newly minted pilot, a key element of personal
- experience I lacked was understanding the difference in aircraft
- performance at or near gross weights. And naturally so, because all
- of my training was either just an instructor and I, or flying solo.
- Though I knew of the *theoretical* problems of flying a heavily loaded
- plane, I never experienced it and at age 19 I guess I wouldn't have
- believed it either. After all, aren't airplanes "over-engineered" to
- perform beyond their published limitations??
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- There is no substitute for experience. So let me ask how many of the
- net.CFI's make it a practice to put their students in a 4 seater, fill
- the other 3 seats, and get some real experience with that real
- queasy feeling of an airplane struggling to climb at gross weight?
- I bet it would save a life every now and then.
-
- Dan Masys
- masys@nlm.nih.gov
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