Well said Dan.  

Craig



-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Schaefer [mailto:dfs155@roadrunner.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 8:05 PM
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: Re: [LML] Re: videos

If you think the low pass by the Legacy in the video is somehow a dangerous
maneuver, I hope you never fly into the airport where I learned to fly many
years ago (Long Beach, CA.)  or any like it - i.e. very busy, four runways
in a tic-tac-toe arrangement plus a corner-to-corner long runway for the
(many) airliners. Because if you can't accept a go-around from the tower
with instructions to fly runway heading until past the departure end of the
runway (which results in a mandatory pass very much like the the one in the
video) then your training for such a situation is woefully incomplete.

Add to the fact that in such a case (the go-around), you're pretty busy
getting the power up and the airplane cleaned up, ensuring that you have a
positive, or at least not negative, rate of climb - all the while staying on

center line and keeping your eyes peeled as to what caused the ruckus, while

in the low pass, you must just fly the airplane. Very close to the same
maneuver but without all the pilot work-load.

If the low pass is either dangerous, illegal or both, then there many, many
controllers and pilots out there who've been screwing up forever!

Flame shorts on,

Dan Schaefer


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