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A pilot I've known forever was killed in a crash during the show today.
RIP, Brian.
RIP, Brian.
Just to be clear, that was just a post that was shared with me. However, I think we would be wise as information becomes available to do as we do with other accidents and put the pieces together to form a picture from which we can learn. I'm sure he would want us to learn from his situation so that we can all become better, safer pilots.Will honor by not speculating, but for accurate reporting, AVWEB had a confused sentence ("the monoplane caught fire and crashed") that implies fire, then crash into the trees. I think the first reports were crash, then fire.
Or we could be respectful to the request and wait until after the NTSB report comes out.Just to be clear, that was just a post that was shared with me. However, I think we would be wise as information becomes available to do as we do with other accidents and put the pieces together to form a picture from which we can learn. I'm sure he would want us to learn from his situation so that we can all become better, safer pilots.
I think that there’s a difference between speculation and evaluating factual information.Or we could be respectful to the request and wait until after the NTSB report comes out.
Just an option to consider.
As I said. Something to consider.I think that there’s a difference between speculation and evaluating factual information.
Fair. I agree that far too often we get into speculation rather than data evaluation. And I’m sure I’m guilty of it too.I don’t think I’ve ever read an accident thread on this board that didn’t include speculation, often by people proving their own ignorance.
Any opportunity to reveal or examine our blind spots is good (even if it doesn’t end up being the factor). For instance, the weather conversations here have been incredibly productive, talking about the big picture of how weather works, the tools we can use, and as you said, the gotchas. Because this forum and others like it are not limited to the area in which we might live or where we learned to fly, there’s an incredible opportunity to share stories, to dig in and examine conditions we don’t see in our bubbles, and learn how that might possibly affect an aircraft.It results in people shari g stories of near misses and other gotchas that we could all learn from.