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From: rl@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Robert Langridge%CGL)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Aviation Good Reads
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Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 23:01:37 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  6 23:01:37 1986
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In article <757@ucsfcgl.UUCP> rl@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Robert Langridge%CGL) writes:
>
>Trivia question: What quotation from an aviation classic is Buck referring
>to when he says "Those are beautiful words that we should cherish, . . ."?
>(no fair peeking :-) 
>
	Well trivia fans, this is the posting you have been waiting for with 
bated breath.  Buck refers to that classic of the language, the volume we all 
keep at our bedside and in our flight bags, to wit, the Federal Aviation 
Regulations, specifically part 91, "General Operating and Flight Rules":

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"	91.4  Responsibility and Authority of the Pilot in Command.

	a)  The pilot in command of an aircraft is directly responsible 
	    for, and is the final authority as to, the operation of that 
	    aircraft.

	Those are beautiful words that we should cherish, wrap up tight in our
thinking, savor, and then realise the responsibility they place upon us.

	In this day and age, with everyone trying to move into the cockpit,
the special phrase in that group of words is "and is the final authority."
. . . 

	It has to be one person, because a flight is the bringing together
of many pieces of information and skills.  . . .  The only place this puzzle
can be put together is in the left front seat, the seat of command.  And the 
only person who can put it together is the commander, you, the pilot."
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	Coming from anyone but Buck (or Yeager for that matter - who doesn't 
use these words or this quote, but would certainly be 100% in agreement) this 
might sound a little pompous, but isn't this one of the reasons we all enjoy 
flying so much?

Bob Langridge			    rl@ucsfcgl (ARPA, UUCP, BITNET)
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