Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 (Fortune 01.1b1); site rhino.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hpda!fortune!rhino!marcum From: marcum@rhino.UUCP (Alan M. Marcum) Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Re: landing in trees, control surface failure, etc. etc. Message-ID: <252@rhino.UUCP> Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 19:21:27 EST Article-I.D.: rhino.252 Posted: Mon Dec 10 19:21:27 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Dec-84 06:18:47 EST References:Reply-To: marcum@rhino.UUCP (Alan M. Marcum) Organization: Fortune Customer Support Lines: 23 In article graham@orca.UUCP (Graham Bromley) writes: > Ye gad! Here I am, thinking I might take the plunge and get my pilot's >license like I always wanted, and all I hear about is how to land in trees, >how to get your airplane into a flat spiral which can't be exited, and what >to do if your elevators and ailerons get stuck - both at once? Come on guys, >give me a break!!! Hmm, yes, sometimes we do give that sort of impression. What's really happening (at least from my prespective) is that pilots value our lives. Given that lack of a shoulder by the side of the airway (or at least the large vertical distance thereto!), we think about these things so we might have a good idea of what we might do BEFORE we're faced with them. The whole notion of contingency planning is missing in driver training (unfortunately); a reasonable amount of effort is put into that in primary (and advanced) flight training. Yes, sometimes it seems morbid, but it's actually precisely the opposite. The sky is a beautiful, but very unforgiving, mistress. -- Alan M. Marcum Fortune Systems, Redwood City, California ...!{ihnp4, ucbvax!amd, hpda, sri-unix, harpo}!fortune!rhino!marcum