Comments on: How low should you go? http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=1713 Online perspective from the editors of "AOPA Pilot". Mon, 20 May 2013 06:19:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: veryhrm http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=1713&cpage=1#comment-98174 veryhrm Tue, 26 Apr 2011 04:49:45 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=1713#comment-98174 To me this seems like a total overreaction by the AF and indirectly a waste of my tax dollars. We’re talking 7 figure loss unless the Maj. was planning to separate anyway.

We’re not talking about some kid doing donuts in a mall parking lot here. We’re talking about an officer probably in his 30s with thousands of hours of experience doing a special operation.

a) Overall the pilot made a good impression on the crowd and thus represented the AF well and aviation in general well. Mission Accomplished.

b) The speed limit thing is so that aircraft have time (theoretically) to see each other. Clearly in this case he was in contact with controllers and i’m guessing was only at high speed for a short while over the stadium. Rules and standards are important, but so is their INTELLIGENT enforcement, not enforcement for it’s own sake.

c) The proper response would have been for the CO to call him in and say “Dude, don’t do that again.” if this was part of some larger pattern of bad decision making etc then sure ground him, but if that’s the case then why is he a flight instructor and the flight lead anyway ?

]]> By: Rodney http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=1713&cpage=1#comment-98128 Rodney Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:35:15 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=1713#comment-98128 Well……….the best you can do is tie the record for lowest pass.

]]> By: Tom http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=1713&cpage=1#comment-98127 Tom Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:37:37 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=1713#comment-98127 As a military aviator, I’ve done several event fly overs and could only shake my head at the lack of professionalism shown in this one. The flight lead certainly deserved to lose his wings for an egregious breach of flight discipline and callous disregard of safety for his flight and the spectators.

]]> By: Grant http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=1713&cpage=1#comment-98112 Grant Fri, 25 Mar 2011 02:04:17 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=1713#comment-98112 I was there, they were low but it was impressive.

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