Posted for "Ed Kary" <captainboris@bellsouth.net>:

 Dear Terrence,
 
 Regarding your comments in reply to Jeff's e-mail:
 
 I found your comments fairly uninformed in response to Jeff Edwards' well
thought out e-mail that brought up a trememdous amount of valid safety points.
 I am confident of Jeff's adroitness with safety statistics; this is his
"bread and butter".
 
 Specifically, as to your comment about "airline piklots" (sic) being
"baby-sat from taxi clearance to shut down", I take exception and I find your
comment way out of line.
 
 If you think that I need to be baby sat, I wish I could invite you on one of
my typical trans-Pacific or inter-Asia flights to observe and see for yourself
from my cockpit jump seat just how demanding the job is and why my experience
and safety training come into play on a daily basis. I don't know what you
base this comment on, unless you were a Part 121 Captain yourself who actually
needed to be "baby-sat" as you conducted your duties.
 
 Perhaps instead of picking apart another individuals comments about low
flight time pilot error and it's relationship to possible causal factors of
high performance aircraft mishaps, you might instead take a healthy dose of
humility and attempt to learn something that just might save your own bacon
someday in your modified experimental aircraft.
 
 Regards,
 
 Ed Kary, Captain, Part 121, ratings: ATP, CFI, CFII
 Type Ratings: 757, 767, 747, DC-10, A-330
 Total Flight time: over 20,000 hrs
Former US Naval Aviator: single-seat carrier aviator; over 3000 hrs; 678
carrier landings (138 night)
 Proud builder: IV-P (~65%)