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Why flight school is a good thing
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I asked my detailer for some advice since I'm going to flight school soon, and he told me a story about a guy who went to flight school in his own plane. This guy showed up the Pensacola airport in his own plane, an aerobatic plane he had flown at a lot of shows. He did great on a lot of flights, but when it came to instrument flights, he was horrible. He figured he already knew enough, so he didn't study much, but was still able to do ok up until those intrument flights. I think he came close to getting attrited.
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I asked my detailer for some advice since I'm going to flight school soon, and he told me a story about a guy who went to flight school in his own plane. This guy showed up the Pensacola airport in his own plane, an aerobatic plane he had flown at a lot of shows. He did great on a lot of flights, but when it came to instrument flights, he was horrible. He figured he already knew enough, so he didn't study much, but was still able to do ok up until those intrument flights. I think he came close to getting attrited.
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These are the guys that we share the skies with.
I was on a late fam in Corpus a couple of years ago in the springtime. This is right about when the Mexican farmers are all burning their fields to plant, so the smoke and haze gets pretty bad over the gulf. It was borderline VMC but we needed to get the X so we were pushing a little. We had a horizon, and we could see the ground right below us, so good enough right. I was doing my clearing turns during the climb to the working area and all of the sudden the windscreen is just full of a Cessna 172. I don't know just how close we were to him, but the pilot had green eyes. After we got away from him we asked ATC if they had him on radar and they said that they had a contact out there squaking VFR but he said that he was reported at 700 feet. We passed him at 7,000 feet. This same stopped talking to approach right after that and almost hit 2 other T-34's in the southern working areas as he flew south along the coast.
I guess the moral of the story is that there are a lot of idiots out there who do not have anything close to our level of training. Look out for these clowns, if they cause a mishap it will not matter who is wrong if you are both dead.
I was on a late fam in Corpus a couple of years ago in the springtime. This is right about when the Mexican farmers are all burning their fields to plant, so the smoke and haze gets pretty bad over the gulf. It was borderline VMC but we needed to get the X so we were pushing a little. We had a horizon, and we could see the ground right below us, so good enough right. I was doing my clearing turns during the climb to the working area and all of the sudden the windscreen is just full of a Cessna 172. I don't know just how close we were to him, but the pilot had green eyes. After we got away from him we asked ATC if they had him on radar and they said that they had a contact out there squaking VFR but he said that he was reported at 700 feet. We passed him at 7,000 feet. This same stopped talking to approach right after that and almost hit 2 other T-34's in the southern working areas as he flew south along the coast.
I guess the moral of the story is that there are a lot of idiots out there who do not have anything close to our level of training. Look out for these clowns, if they cause a mishap it will not matter who is wrong if you are both dead.
EngineGirl
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Sic em Reveille!!!!
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