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rexjan(at)bigpond.com
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 Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:17 pm Post subject: Re leaving flying |
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Hi ! Graeme,
I am very sad to see you are about to give up flying after all the effort to get your plane rebuilt. Do you remember a few years ago coming down here to Sth Aust and flying my MKIV when I think you were just getting your MKI going ? Well I was so impressed with your pilot abilitty that I know you are a good pilot. Yes you can be good and still get a bad problem and obviously that is what worries you. I understand that and if that is telling you to get out you are the one that must decide. However I have spent all my life conflicting danger to some degree and I'd say you get used to it to a fair degree. The thing is to always respect it though.
When I was racing my 5 Litre Hydroplane there was a couple of incidents that made me think a bit like you are thinking now but somehow I continued racing and in the end it was not that aspect that made me give it up. It was lack of money after I lost the head off a valve at 6,500 RPM on the turn. This made a huge mess of my motor and I could not afford to rebuild it. At that time however although the incidents were always in the back of my mind when racing rather than scaring me they just served as a warning to keep out of that situation. In other words it really made me a safer racer. Whether or not you can continue to fly and get to that stage is an individual thing but I would urge you to not let your plane go too quickly because then it will be very hard to come back. I wish there was someway I could help you.
To be fair I must admit when I gave up racing Karts it probably beat me. I was 58 at the time and racing in the fastest, heaviest and most powerful class and on dirt tracks. We were getting 16 year old kids coming into the class doing silly things and I thought I saw the writing on the wall that something could happen and I figured at 58 perhaps I should give it away. I was too old for bad prangs I thought. Maybe you will consider all this and decide it is your time to give up flying. If so I respect that but as I said I will be very sad to see you go and I do urge you to not make that decision too quickly because as I said it will be hard to come back. I do believe you can work through this if you really want to. It would be unreasonable not to expect some mental scaring from your accident. However instead of letting that destroy your passion for flying why not make it make you a better pilot.
I hope we still run into each other if you do give it away and I hope you find something to replace your flying passion. If your plane is up for sale let me know your best price as I have a friend that I know would love it but finances might be tight.
Anyway I have enjoyed knowing you thus far and I hope to see you around a bit yet,
Goodluck,
Rex.
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earlwhite4(at)verizon.net
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| Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 1:13 pm Post subject: Re leaving flying |
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Hi Graeme,
Just reading everything at random from the list. Have to say it's sad to experience. I almost had a midair myself when I had about 20 hours past the solo sign off. It was so close that I thought I (we) were dead. That's when I realized that a 150 Cessna is a deathtrap. It;s not in the POH, and we've all done it that way for this long, so what's YOUR problem? is the unwritten message.
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Not just Cessnas, but any single engine tractor configuration High wing airplane is a problem. Think about it you are flying in something with no visibility on either side, at or above your eye level. Left and right you are looking at the inside of the wing root. Anything from the top of the dashboard down is of course also blocking your vision. behind you there might be some small windows , but they are pretty hard to use and not of much use anyway. Anything you CAN see down adn below you us usually not a threat to you anyway, so you might get a false sense of security from flying one of these.
And basically having all that airplane wrapped around you isn't going to help much if you hit something anyway.
If I do any more flying I'm going to try and get into something I can at least see out of like an OPtica , Rans Pusher configurated kit or something like that. Maybe then I would enjoy the reason I went flying in the first place and relax.
Good luck
Earl White
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