REFLECTOR: Chicken little

[Ron Brown]

But on the other hand, who would think about flying near DC without a GPS?????????

Could it be an CFI who thinks the only way to navigate is dead reckoning and VORs?????  I still hear students getting lost on cross countries (with CFI's forbidding the availability of a back up GPS).  Here's proof that even CFI's can get lost - we would be better off (and cost less to the tax payers) to give ALL pilots a back up GPS!!!

Ronnie

  
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Al Gietzen 
  To: reflector 
  Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 10:29 AM
  Subject: REFLECTOR: Chicken little


  THE SKY IS FALLING!  The sky is falling!  Evacuate the congress; evacuate the Whitehouse; evacuate the Supreme court.  Send the Blackhawk, Scramble the fighter jets; be ready to shoot it down.



  Er.. no; it's a Cessna 150.  It can barely carry 2-passengers and suitcase.



  The officials say, "This demonstrates that we have made great strides in protecting ourselves from the dangerous skies.  But we have a lot more work to do".



  What is wrong with this picture?  Makes me wonder if I want to ever fly my plane.



  Al (Maybe I was in a bad mood BEFORE I read that news report)







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