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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
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Posted: Mon Dec 10 19:21:27 1984
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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
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