Life’s hard lessons…. I believe I directly took accountability for poor judgment that caused the loss of an old friend (33% H9-Cap). Not engine response, Not servo failure, not someone else radio interfering with mine, not some strange set of confluences that focused the power of the universe unexplainably on my plane’s destruction, just me and a moment of poor judgment. An approach I have made several hundred times successfully in the past from the same direction and under the same low lighting conditions.
I thought I would take the high road and walk away with a (somewhat expensive) hard lesson from all this regarding my flight planning and thinking through my actions more carefully in the future. However as this string has not taken on a life of it’s own I see something else in all this good fun.
First I would invite you to go back and read the entire string. What had started as one individuals desire to self promote them self’s by eulogizing this mishap as an opportunity to post his latest torque rolling picture showing his prowess at 3D. This string now has become a vehicle to further elevate others self-image by pointing out what I have already painfully admitted, I made a mistake a moment of poor judgment (as stated in my posting to the string).
This is not the first time and I don’t think it will be my last mistake. How many other ways can it be said? Let’s see, may be I could post a photo showing how far the trees are from the end of the runway and try to even further humiliate my self? No, Michael Mluvara has already done that for me. I wonder what his point was? Lets see, did I say the trees were close to the runway, no? Did I say the lay out of the field was so poorly contrived that this caused me to crash into the trees, No. But does Michael feel better showing everyone how stupid I was for being out so far, (as you can now clearly see in the picture) I suppose he does or he wouldn’t have gone through such trouble (I know your are very busy Michael thanks for taking the time). You know what they say; a picture is worth a thousand words. Having read Michaels editorials in our newsletter over the past year, we should all be thankful that Michael chose instead to use a picture to make his point. Maybe if I shared with you the other events of this day and other unrelated mishaps that might show further my poor judgment? No, Joe Hunt has already pointed that out to you for me. But what would be the point in doing that, didn’t I already make it clear that I used poor judgment and decision-making process. As you can see, the task of reporting these clearly idiotic and somewhat embarrassing events to you have been taken on by my friends (or more accurately, my fellow field rats). What would we do with out friends to help show us the way? Now does this surprise you that my friends and fellow field rates would attempt to further humiliate me? No, I know they are just trying to help me by applying their superior deductive reasoning in order that I might see the error of my ways (from all possible angles). It is not what you think? They are not just trying to elevate them self’s by implying they posses superior skill sets? I know personally that nether of these Ace’s have ever crashed a plane. Some would imply that it might be their frail nature or poor character that would have them ditch others as some sort of twisted hummer or self-help therapy. But then this would be an elementary and unjust generalization.
What I am surprised by are the apparently very secure individuals that chose to share their sympathy to the circumstances by telling me (and you) their own recent laps of judgment and or loss of a favorite plane, Thanks for making the effort, (JMBoss, Robert, Timbersnake, Gordon Mc, FilipM) to me you are men among boys, you showed me and others real class, thank you. To my fellow field rates, get a life