Thu Apr 19, 2018 7:38 pm
#1605896
To answer the original question "Does this sort of thing happen a lot or was this idiot a special case?" - Personal answer - I've not had things like it, although I haven't done any significant flying into busy, uncontrolled places. I have heard of similar happening before.
I have seem miss communication, miss-reporting positions, people calling "base" when I'm at base in the circuit which has worried me (they were actually about to join a 10 mile final).
I know lazy people, people who intentionally take liberties, people who are out of practice, people who were poorly trained, people who are students, people in aircraft without radio, new radios, poor radios, expensive radios, people in slow aircraft, fast aircraft, big aircraft, small aircraft, camouflaged, fluorescent. Some stay local, some are bimblers, foreigners, travellers, risk takers, risk mitigators, litigators.... All are different and fly differently. Some I wouldn't want to fly with, as my approach to risk is different from them.
However I don't know anyone who wants to die or injure others.
All you can be, is the best you can be - aim for that. When something goes wrong, ensure learning comes from it. If someone else needs to, or can, learn from something, ensure that there is the opportunity for this also to happen (sounds like it is happening in this case as it has been raised). It is up to others to decide is someone is unable to learn, so shouldn't be flying. This emphasis on learning from issues is what makes flying, which is inherently dangerous, as safe as it can be.
This is why we tend not to call others idiots before knowing all sides of a story. Then they might call themselves an idiot, the first part to striving to be better.
I have seem miss communication, miss-reporting positions, people calling "base" when I'm at base in the circuit which has worried me (they were actually about to join a 10 mile final).
I know lazy people, people who intentionally take liberties, people who are out of practice, people who were poorly trained, people who are students, people in aircraft without radio, new radios, poor radios, expensive radios, people in slow aircraft, fast aircraft, big aircraft, small aircraft, camouflaged, fluorescent. Some stay local, some are bimblers, foreigners, travellers, risk takers, risk mitigators, litigators.... All are different and fly differently. Some I wouldn't want to fly with, as my approach to risk is different from them.
However I don't know anyone who wants to die or injure others.
All you can be, is the best you can be - aim for that. When something goes wrong, ensure learning comes from it. If someone else needs to, or can, learn from something, ensure that there is the opportunity for this also to happen (sounds like it is happening in this case as it has been raised). It is up to others to decide is someone is unable to learn, so shouldn't be flying. This emphasis on learning from issues is what makes flying, which is inherently dangerous, as safe as it can be.
This is why we tend not to call others idiots before knowing all sides of a story. Then they might call themselves an idiot, the first part to striving to be better.
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