| Winter time and bad weather is usually a big damper | | | | slightly improved from 2006 to 2007. Any improvement |
| for General Aviation Pilots. During those long winters its | | | | is good and hopefully one day when the media is |
| easy to forget lots of knowledge that was acquired | | | | salivating over an GA airplane accident, they will also |
| with lots of hard work. | | | | be able to report "no casualties"... |
| The medium you operate in is nowhere else to be | | | | Just as with Airline Pilots we all look up on, we also |
| found, than, of course in the sky and it is therefore | | | | have to do more if we want to be pilots. It is inherent |
| even more important to keep up with knowledge. It | | | | that we want or should be a cut above the general |
| cannot be applied or found anywhere else. So what is | | | | population when it comes to safety. We take our |
| one to do in order to stay "fresh" vs "stale"? | | | | family to a trip a few hundred miles away form home, |
| Reading and more reading and studying; it may sound | | | | they expect us to be able to operate our craft just as |
| so stale, but just as a few days ago, the whole nation | | | | safe as the big "brothers". |
| watched in disbelieve when an Airbus was very | | | | In recent years, computer technology has advanced |
| skillfully ditched into the Hudson River and all people on | | | | so fast and the quality of the gaming stuff is of such |
| board walked away with only wet and cold feet... | | | | excellent quality, it has trickled all the way down to our |
| This is exactly how we want an emergency to | | | | "PC based Flight simulators", and many pilots use those |
| end...with no casualties! This does not come from one | | | | "toys" to stay up with their skills. This is a very good |
| day to the other, rather with lots of work in mundane | | | | turn for the better, regardless how limited it may be |
| quarters, far away from fame and glory! | | | | (situational awareness, kinetic senses, etc). Another |
| Real pilots don't seek fame nor glory, and when things | | | | way to stay in touch with your skills, is like Emilia |
| do happen as they have, no wonder when the Pilot | | | | Erhard did, "flying around the world with my fingers on |
| tells the press, "we all did what we were trained to do; | | | | the map!" What a simple concept! |
| we just did our job"! | | | | Lets keep on with improving the overall safety and |
| In General Aviation there is still lots of work to be done, | | | | security of our beautiful hobby/sport of flying General |
| although according to the Nall Report, things have just | | | | Aviation Aircraft. |