Seven crashes in as many days (same aircraft and pilot)

BeechBaby wrote:

and gave the feds and FAA enough ammunition to damage the whole GA flight scene

Maybe it’s only me, but I fail to see the logic. How can one person damage the whole GA flight scene? We know it’s one single person- The FAA knows it’s one single person. He know he is one single person.Even the public and media know it’s one single person. I mean, I don’t think a community exists that has so many individualistic and oddball persons ready to fight over nothing like stubborn old goats as the GA flight scene. That IS the GA flight scene in a nutshell. Ask any wife of one of the oddballs

Lots of normal, straight forward people as well, but while other communities have one or two oddballs, The GA community is filled with them, about 40-50% at least. Some of those oddballs are much more oddball than the average oddball as well.

If one bridge or chess player goes bananas. I don’t think anyone would get the idea that he/she is damaging the whole bridge/chess scene. Well, I don’t.

Money can’t buy skill. Or common sense apparently.

Reminds me of this guy who put a Ferrari in the water with a heavy right foot.

@lsving I think in a sense you may have answered your own oddball conundrum. Every GA incident dents public confidence and particularly in the States there is a large anti sentiment. Airfields have been closing at a continuously high rate. Every piece of bad PR gives ammunition to the anti aviation lobby. In the UK the Shoreham crash had a severe impact on the flight display scene. We have spent hours on EuroGA reviewing the Sala case and the behaviours in that scenario. All this dents public confidence and in an industry that is pretty challenged and will continue to be we really do not need very whacky and oddball idiots promoting the cause that the majority of the scene is populated by oddballs. Just my 2c from the oddball camp

LeSving wrote:

How can one person damage the whole GA flight scene?

In todays anti GA climate, it depends how this thing is being publicized. If it goes on big letter papers or larger TV, it will give those who seek amunition one more prominent case to talk about. Regulators are usually more level headed, yet a balant case like this will also cause bad vibes with them.

Clearly, one bad pilot doesn’t represent the flock. But in an environment as GA finds itself as much here as in the US, nobody needs idiots like this.

Antonio wrote:

Don’t know about the swearing, but probably right about the sayings!

Definitely right. For example, there are more than 100 sayings and meanings of “cojones” (balls) in the Spanish language, and for those who understand a bit of Spanish, this! might be quite funny. It is a good example of that differences e.g. between German and Spanish couldn’t be bigger. Here in Germany we (try to) use the exact right one single word for a thing, and that single word might have 100 letters or more. In Spain it’s more like a competition to find the most funny word where still the majority gets what is meant to be. I really like this way of humour, it makes conversation a lot more interesting

UdoR wrote:

there are more than 100 sayings and meanings of “cojones” (balls)

Bet you do not have this….

The Darwin awards have once again been cheated …