Comments on: If I die http://blog.xcski.com/2007/12/06/if-i-die Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:25:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Paul P http://blog.xcski.com/2007/12/06/if-i-die#comment-69115 Paul P Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:52:03 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2007/12/06/if-i-die#comment-69115 It may be too easy to judge other pilots who have bought their own farm when the cause is found. In most cases, I can see their fault and then learn something from it. But in some cases, it's just plain stupidity. I still find myself angry about Bill L's mismanagement of fuel. It may be too easy to judge other pilots who have bought their own farm when the cause is found. In most cases, I can see their fault and then learn something from it. But in some cases, it’s just plain stupidity. I still find myself angry about Bill L’s mismanagement of fuel.

]]> By: Anthony de Boer http://blog.xcski.com/2007/12/06/if-i-die#comment-67907 Anthony de Boer Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:52:02 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2007/12/06/if-i-die#comment-67907 Over in the scuba community we call it "accident analysis" and try to learn as much as we can from each fallen diver (or absent friend, in the case of one of them) to try and keep the same thing from happening again. In response to the comment from Kris, every one of us has to sit back and admit that "It CAN happen to me" and that thinking it can't is the fastest way to losing the paranoia that keeps you watching out for the hazards. The bad attitude may be one way of insulating your feelings as you go back out there and risk your life in an arena that's claimed others, but it's more natural than healthy. Over in the scuba community we call it “accident analysis” and try to learn as much as we can from each fallen diver (or absent friend, in the case of one of them) to try and keep the same thing from happening again.

In response to the comment from Kris, every one of us has to sit back and admit that “It CAN happen to me” and that thinking it can’t is the fastest way to losing the paranoia that keeps you watching out for the hazards. The bad attitude may be one way of insulating your feelings as you go back out there and risk your life in an arena that’s claimed others, but it’s more natural than healthy.

]]> By: Kris Johnson http://blog.xcski.com/2007/12/06/if-i-die#comment-67885 Kris Johnson Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:45:28 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2007/12/06/if-i-die#comment-67885 I completely agree with the intent of this. However, something that really bugged me back when I was involved in aviation forums was the contempt displayed for pilots who had died in accidents. "Idiot," "moron," and other such words were commonly used when describing the chains of poor decisions that led to accidents. I think other pilots have a psychological need to distance themselves from those ill-fated pilots, and so they want to believe that they couldn't possibly make the same kinds of mistakes that those "idiots" made. But that need doesn't excuse the insults. I completely agree with the intent of this. However, something that really bugged me back when I was involved in aviation forums was the contempt displayed for pilots who had died in accidents. “Idiot,” “moron,” and other such words were commonly used when describing the chains of poor decisions that led to accidents.

I think other pilots have a psychological need to distance themselves from those ill-fated pilots, and so they want to believe that they couldn’t possibly make the same kinds of mistakes that those “idiots” made. But that need doesn’t excuse the insults.

]]> By: elay http://blog.xcski.com/2007/12/06/if-i-die#comment-67865 elay Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:28:14 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2007/12/06/if-i-die#comment-67865 a few lines from the poem Impressions of a Pilot..: Should my end come while I am in flight, Whether brightest day or darkest night; Spare me your pity and shrug off the pain, Secure in the knowledge that I'd do it again. For each of us is created to die, And within me I know, I was born to fly. a few lines from the poem Impressions of a Pilot..:

Should my end come while I am in flight,
Whether brightest day or darkest night;
Spare me your pity and shrug off the pain,
Secure in the knowledge that I’d do it again.

For each of us is created to die,
And within me I know,
I was born to fly.

]]> By: rpg http://blog.xcski.com/2007/12/06/if-i-die#comment-67819 rpg Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:26:52 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2007/12/06/if-i-die#comment-67819 Howabout dying in someone else's bed? Um, wait, there's a word for this.. . "Vickification", IIRC. Howabout dying in someone else’s bed?

Um, wait, there’s a word for this.. . “Vickification”, IIRC.

]]> By: Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/2007/12/06/if-i-die#comment-67818 Paul Tomblin Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:06:30 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2007/12/06/if-i-die#comment-67818 That could be arranged. That could be arranged.

]]> By: Vicki http://blog.xcski.com/2007/12/06/if-i-die#comment-67817 Vicki Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:03:30 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2007/12/06/if-i-die#comment-67817 Dying in bed <i>with me</i> is better than dying flying. Oh, wait. OK, just don't die. How about that? Until I do. Then you can. Dying in bed with me is better than dying flying.

Oh, wait.

OK, just don’t die. How about that? Until I do. Then you can.

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