Tail Dragger

[eagl]

If he decides to try to fly the thing again, please videotape it...  If for nothing else, "suicide by aircraft crash" may require additional documentation when determining if any VA survivors benefits will be given to his next of kin.

[VonMessa]

ROFL. If that counts for training, I should be IFR multi engine rated!

(P-3 Simulator with a Navy instructor )

Not necessarily.......

Was the Navy instructor your Uncle?

 

[Heater]

At least let him read FAR part 103:

http://www.ultralighthomepage.com/FAR.part103.html

[danny76]

LOL Serenity, You sound like somebody I knew once, long ago.. He was an Schoolboy Butterbar too, still drippin with oil.. One night, some 35 odd yrs ago, he ran his arrogant flappin mouth to the wrong group of drunk Marines..  The poor selfimpressed boy was stuffed inside a barrack wall locker, and then the locker was thrown out a 3rd story window... I had to testify at the court marshal!
LOL, I still laugh about that, LOL!  You may be mighty impressed with yourself right now, but you've still got alot to learn kiddo!
There are ppl out there in the big bad world, who will gladly remind you of your place in life..  Carefull, 3 stories is a long way down from your exalted perch in your "realm", lol!  Oh yes, by the way, he didn't die, but I wonder if he is still enjoying his wheelchair life..

Yes, some ppl need to FEEL special, and are always shocked when others don't seem to CARE A BIT,  

And still, nobody has answered my question?

I'd fly the frikkin kite, because I've seen enough mountains, to make molehills unnoticeable...

RC

Oh how i laughed when i read this, there are few instances in life so funny as a gang of moron's crippling some poor guy for life.

PRAT

[Serenity]

Not necessarily.......

Was the Navy instructor your Uncle?

 

lol. Nope, family friend though, and an Annapolis grad. Was with VP-47 at the time, IIRC.

[Dawger]

Aviation has its own way of dealing with those who are over-confident and under-trained.

But the self cleaning oven isn't as efficient as it could be, eagle eyes.

[Dawger]

In war, and in flight, the first casualty is always the plan.

-Penguin

Couldn't be more wrong about flight. 99.9% of the time my flights go exactly as planned.

If your flight doesn't go as planned on a very regular basis, you are doing something very wrong.

[Yossarian]

Couldn't be more wrong about flight. 99.9% of the time my flights go exactly as planned.

If your flight doesn't go as planned on a very regular basis, you are doing something very wrong.

That doesn't change the fact that everyone urging this guy to go fly his plane blatantly has little respect for human life.

[VonMessa]

That doesn't change the fact that everyone urging this guy to go fly his plane blatantly has little respect for human life.

It should be the right of every human to engage in activities that may be fatal to themself.

BUT................

ONLY if they are the sole person that may get hurt during the course of such endeavor.

No one has the right to put another person's life in danger.

Where is it written that I am required to respect this guy's life.

If he wanted to take this thing out to the Bonneville salt flats (or someplace similar) where there wasn't a chance of injuring anyone else, I'd give him the old      .

He is a big boy and knows the risk involved.

You can't fix stupid.

[Penguin]

You can't fix stupid.

Amen.

-Penguin

[RichardDarkwood]

He is a big boy and knows the risk involved.

You can't fix stupid.

That depends on what your definition of stupid is. I think like everyone else when they first start out in something give themselves a limit, and each time out they push that limit a little further than the last time.




Todd

[Cougar68]

I think like everyone else when they first start out in something give themselves a limit,

I think like everyone else, when they first start out in something that could easily end in death they learn as much as possible from other people who are more experienced than they are. 

[DREDIOCK]

Anyone who willingly jumps out of perfectly good airplanes either is an idiot or isnt all there to begin with.
In this case maybe both.


On the other hand.
These guys didnt have much flight instruction when they started either




Either way. It should make for an amusing video

[VonMessa]

That depends on what your definition of stupid is. I think like everyone else when they first start out in something give themselves a limit, and each time out they push that limit a little further than the last time.




Todd

Endangering others.

I'm not by any means an opponent of him putting himself in harms way.

[MORAY37]

Anyone who willingly jumps out of perfectly good airplanes either is an idiot or isnt all there to begin with.
In this case maybe both.


On the other hand.
These guys didnt have much flight instruction when they started either

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Either way. It should make for an amusing video

Orville and Wilbur didn't have a flight instructor, but they took months to "get it" enough to fly some 59 seconds and 852 feet, in incremental steps, on a beach devoid of any other people.

You think our Red Baron is going to do it that way, or just hop in, turn the key, and get a rush?