Safe in the air!?

[Aerosan]

I have just read an article written by a well known doctor who flies woer woer`s. He explained that he had a, if I remember correctly, a short blackout whilst driving his car subsequently went to the doctor ……….etc etc. He then goes on to say that they couldn’t find anything concrete but there was a small spot on the MR that they couldn’t explain and he therefore decided to end his solo flying career. A very honorable thing to do :D . Then a couple of minutes later something dawned on me… .I can not remember of any one time that I could hurt anybody but myself should something go wrong at any specific instant. I’m sure there must have been but the point is that 99% of the time I would fall or crash and burn in someone’s veld should something go wrong. We are not supposed to fly over build up areas anyway

Now driving in my motorcar or on my bike it is a different story Nearly 99% of the time I’m in traffic amongst other people and vehicles. The chances of hurting someone else are MUCH greater as far as I can work out or, am I wrong Imagine getting a black out on the highway doing 120kmh between other traffic and you make a 90degree left hand turn

I'm not talking about you Mr. Professional pilot I'm talking about the lot of us, also referred to as monkeys by certain people , microlight pilots and the average recreational pilot. I just wonder if the gent will do the honorable thing and give up solo driving as well

maybe they will make a recreational drivers license

[Robin Hood]

Ja I have often thought along similar lines. I had to do 35 hours training to get my licence @R450.00 per hour (was a bit old and slow when I started this MPL thing!), I am over 60 so have go for complete medical each year, have to have my plane AP'd each year for authority to fly, have to replace certain critical items at specified hours, have to keep a detailed log of everything I do on the trike - and all this allows to take only one non-paying passenger. Along comes a taxi driver with 20 passengers, writes off half of them because his brakes do not work or no licence or smooth tyres or whatever, steals another kombi and is back on the road the next morning with a further 20 potential passengers to be killed. Where the hell does the logic come in?