Originally Posted by
David Gladwin
You obviously do not get reality. In military aviation we had to do dangerous things, nature of the job, we had to get them done with the highest degree of safety. We had a VERY high degree of safety training and understanding., You have obviously no knowledge or understanding of that.
I learned the real meaning of flight safety at an early stage in my carer. In 1963 my instructor and I ejected from a jet at 14,700 feet. When my chute opened at 10,000 feet it was damaged, I fell 10,000 feet in a damaged chute, expecting it to candle at any moment. Not a fun time.
Although we ejected in a remote area, the jet eventually crashed in an isolated farmyard, spraying a ton of jet fuel where kids had been playing a few minutes before. Mercifully, there was no fire and no one on the ground was hurt.
In my 12 years in the RAF I lost 9 colleagues, 4 one morning, including my navigator, killed flying with another pilot in a Canberra whilst I was on leave. Please dont tell me military flying experience has no relevance in flight safety, some of which, particularly a safety culture, can be transferred across to the operation of high performance model jets.
Oooohhhhh!!! Aaahhhhhhh!!!. Let us all genuflect in swooning admiration of your superior knowledge!!
Geez. You profess to have some special grasp on reality or the ability to judge others’ grasp of same? Seriously? Get OVER yourself dude.
I myself have been an aviator for 45 years and counting, and professional aviator for 42 years and counting. There’s nothing special in that other than having had the honor and privilege during that time to have worked with aviators from a VERY wide variety of of aviation backgrounds. Some of those pilots taught me a lot while others tried to get me killed, and I know first hand that their backgrounds were very poor predictors as to which of those two categories they would belong to. So you can fool yourself and perhaps some naively impressionable others -but not me- into believing this mythical nonsense about a supposedly special military understanding of safety, as if the military has some front row seat to either skill or safety that the rest of the world does not.
So rather than preaching to us, perhaps you should consider expressing your opinions with some humility and respect for others who’s backgrounds differ from your own.