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Get real. The ONLY things that I am willing to get hurt for are my wife and my children. The plane is just a thing, a thing I built. I can build another.
Brent -
Thanks for the insight. Worth listening to, as always. I haven't yet been in a situation where I had to choose between saving myself or saving the airplane. Hopefully, my judgement is such that I never will have to make that choice.
- Rob Wolf
20 some years ago, before I had an Instrument rating, I owned a Comanche 250. Late one night, on a cross country from Chicago to Philadelphia, I found myself circling a house, in the base of the clouds, below the mountain tops, just north of Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh Approach, after saying that it was to late for a Special VFR into Allegheny County, asked what I was going to do. I said that I had 5 hours of fuel left and that if he could figure out how to get me on the ground, in one piece, he could have the airplane. He got me down by talking me through an instrument approach to Pittsburgh International at 200 and 1. Needless to say, I survived. The Controller said that he couldn't accept the airplane but would instead, out of the goodness of his heart, issue me a fine.
It was pretty easy to decide what to give up. I'm glad that I had the chance to think about it.
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Lorn H. 'Feathers' Olsen, DynaComm, Corp.
248-478-4301, lorn@dynacomm.ws
LNC2, O-320, N31161, Y47, SE Michigan
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