"I've been fired from better jobs than this"
Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2019 3:39 pm
If you don't say that at least once in your career, sooner or
later you will let really stupid people on the ground talk you
into doing really stupid things in the air.
[u]Know your limitations. Fly within them. Try to expand them.[/u]
As I have said before, the two most dangerous things I did in
airplanes in my lifetime, were at the insistence of two different
TC Inspectors. I should have told them both to take a long walk
off a short pier. Amazingly, I lived. I like to charitably think that
they were merely incredibly stupid, and not outright homicidal,
but after considerable and lengthy reflection, I remain unsure.
later you will let really stupid people on the ground talk you
into doing really stupid things in the air.
[u]Know your limitations. Fly within them. Try to expand them.[/u]
As I have said before, the two most dangerous things I did in
airplanes in my lifetime, were at the insistence of two different
TC Inspectors. I should have told them both to take a long walk
off a short pier. Amazingly, I lived. I like to charitably think that
they were merely incredibly stupid, and not outright homicidal,
but after considerable and lengthy reflection, I remain unsure.