Snowbird down?

[Low-n-Slow]

Just had a local news clip that said one of the Snowbirds went down around Great Falls MT this evening (Fri). Anyone from the northern states heard any details?

Scott

[Stevo]

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/app...EWS01/70518020

[AAFO_WSagar]

Oh man... This is really sad.

We simply have to stop killing demo pilots, period!

Sad Sad Sad!

My heart goes out to friends and family....

Very Very Sad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Randy Haskin]

Originally Posted by AAFO_WSagar

We simply have to stop killing demo pilots, period!

...what about the rest of the pilots? Or just regular old people, even?

[AAFO_WSagar]

Originally Posted by Randy Haskin

...what about the rest of the pilots? Or just regular old people, even?

Weellllll Randy.. .since you *always* seem to take exception to what I write.. Here's my take.

Average Joe and his body Politique like to knee jerk.. They don't like aiports but they like to fly places, they don't like air shows but they attend. Every time an airplane goes down, they look for someone to blame.

If an airliner goes down, of course, that's always a tragedy and, again, of course, worthy of whatever investigation is necessary to find out what happened so efforts to keep mistakes from happening will take place..

Now, we have one jet team demo pilot after another going down, sprinkled with the odd civilian demo pilot going down and Joe Citzen and his duly elected representitives find this bandwagon or that to hitch their buggy to..

Get my drift?

One of these days Hacker, you and me gonna have to tie one on so you can get a chance to know ME.. not the ME that you've probably been told about..

Cheesh..

I *think* we're on the same team brah...

[AirDOGGe]

http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?C...3-132a73bf9125

Aw, man. Another one? That's the only problem with this hobby/sport....It's too damn unforgiving of human errors or mechanical failure.

Prayers spoken...

[Matt Jackson]

Originally Posted by AAFO_WSagar

Oh man... This is really sad.

We simply have to stop killing demo pilots, period!

Sad Sad Sad!

My heart goes out to friends and family....

Very Very Sad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And how do you propose to do that?

[AAFO_WSagar]

Originally Posted by Matt Jackson

And how do you propose to do that?

S h i t Matt, I don't know... Seemed like a good idea at the time...



Trust me, I wasn't jumping on any sort of "bandwagon" by expressing my thoughts... I'mjust remembering what the local attitude was when we parked a Hunter in a neighborhood next to our local airshow here in the PDX area...

STOP AIRSHOWS...

That said, standing on the outside, when a rash of this stuff happens.. am I the only one who stops and wonders, what to hell is going on?

How do the most well trained pilots in the world manage to lose it so friggin often?

Are demo pilots trying so hard to thrill us groundlings and their peers that they are taking unnecessary chances?

If so.. my message to them would be.. please, don't do it! 50' 100' 200'... hell, we can't hardly tell the difference..

Anyway.. was just some random thoughts after a beer or two and a glass of red..

Carry on..

[Randy Haskin]

Originally Posted by AAFO_WSagar

Weellllll Randy.. .since you *always* seem to take exception to what I write.. Here's my take.

<SNIP>

I *think* we're on the same team brah...

Yup, definitely. I was just poking a stick in it, which I've been known to do on occasion!

You're on for that tie-one-on. Definitely.

[AirDOGGe]

For all those whiners Wayne mentioned...





That is all.....Carry on.