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From: ron@hpfcla.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Aviation Consumer vs. "Yeager"
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Date: Fri, 3-Jan-86 14:12:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  3 14:12:00 1986
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I agree that YEAGER was a great book ....However, I believe that
the world has changed sufficiently that there cannot be another
individual in the system who behaves as Yeager did.

The military systems commonly write a regulation to punish anyone who 
attempts to do the same thing that one person has fouled up on.
For example, the low altitude acro stuff that Yeager would do without
concern killed enough pilots that such activities are court-martial material 
in today's armed services. Another example, Yeager "checked out" in 
dozens of different airplanes by merely a cockpit session with the 
crew chief. THAT doesn't happen any more either.

Military managers get really bad grades for having pilots killed and 
very expensive airplanes lost because of mistakes made in questionable
operations. They move to prevent questionable operations.

I'm sorry that it has come to that. I don't like it but it isn't going
to change anytime soon. 

I also think that AC has a pretty good point. In our present society
it will not just be the insufficiently skilled individual who augers in on
a dumb move but it might be the aircraft manufacturer who must pay $ 10M
to the pilots heirs because he didn't build an airplane that would prevent
the pilot from flying inverted at 50' 
Yeager himself admits that he had a BIG dose of luck to have survived. 

*I* am not as good a pilot as Yeager 
I worry about those who think they are but really aren't.


Ron Miller   CFI-G


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