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On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 23:40:22 -0500, Halle, John <JJHALLE@stoel.com> wrote:
If you are the right kind of pilot, you can fly by my airport any time. If not, I would prefer you don't come at all.
John -
How can you tell? I believe Jeff was saying that good judgment is a major component of a good pilot. And that high speed, low passes (outside of an FAA sanctioned airshow, IMHO) are bad judgment. I happen to believe he is quite right on this correlation and on most everything else he posts on this list.
An airport I know was trying to cope with a few pilots doing aerobatics over the airport and neighboring community. Included in the local FSDO's opinion of what constitutes illegal aerobatics was the so-called "runway check". I can't remember who initiated this thread, but we all need to understand that emails are hardly the place to display one's indiscretions. And, by the way, passes sanctioned by the tower are the worst. They have tapes and I doubt if the controller has the authority to approve one.
One of the great tragedies one ever can witness is when a pilot flies his last combat mission and is headed home. The military records are liberally sprinkled with examples of what happened when they made that high speed, low pass and proceeded to bust their a-s.
John Schroeder
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