A SAD DAY
This week's question and answer for "Ask Cap'n
Meryl" has to do with circling approaches Circling Approaches
First a couple of notes:
Those of you who are interested in home flight
simulators, don't forget tomorrow morning's
interview with the manufacturers of the TrackIR,
a device I wouldn't be without when flying from
home. Here once again are the details of the
call and Al The Web Guy will post a link to that
interview afterwards if you can't make it.
Date: Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
Time: 11:00 AM Pacific Time (adjust for your own time zone)
Number to call: 1-620-782-2200 Access Code: 69728
Link to the Product with discount:
http://trackir.naturalpoint.com/fromthecockpit
How to submit questions: Submit to me at
support@fromthecockpit.com and put TrackIR in the
subject OR you may have a chance to ask questions
during the call. If you already know you have a
question, best to do it in advance to make sure
it gets covered.
Also, for those of you interested in the
children's series Violet the Pilot, I just
received my copy of "Violet the Pilot in the
Arctic," fourth in the series, by my friend and
author Bettina Jenkins Bathe, a Canadian pilot.
Her site is www.violetthepilot.com for purchasing
and other information.
One more item, and that is I'd like to thank the
dozens of people who wrote after last week's
Update entitled "The Burger King Connection." A
Burger King manager, higher up than the two
managers I dealt with getting hospital meals
delivered for my friend Myrna, called and we
spoke for quite awhile about the integrity and
good-heartedness of the two girls involved--Trudy
and Annie.
His tone when he called was so serious that my
initial thought was, "Uh-oh! I got them in
trouble." That wasn't the case at all, however.
He just called to tell me how proud he was of
them as employees and as people. If anyone lives
nearby, it's the Burger King in Elgin, Illinois
at 1150 N. Mclean. I hope you'll stop by and be
sure to tell Annie and/or Trudy Cap'n Meryl sends
her regards. I'm still hoping to get a photo of
both of them for my photo gallery.
Another meal or two has found its way to my
friend Myrna's room at the convalescent facility,
and she's scheduled to return home at last later
this week. She went into the hospital July 5th
and sounds so relieved to be finally going home.
If you missed my previous Updates, Myrna is a
retired crew scheduler for United I've known for
over twenty years, going through her second war
with cancer.
I'm going to keep this Update reasonably short,
but I do want to at least acknowledge the Comair
crash in Lexington as I'm being deluged with
questions and comments about it.
Even a crash like this which seems to have an
obvious cause warrants a full investigation. I'm
in no position to judge why this crash happened
and it's inappropriate to jump to conclusions.
There always seems to be facts uncovered which
color the initial rush to judgment. Fatigue is
often a factor when accidents just don't make
sense, and it's a fact that accidents are almost
always the result of several things going wrong
and not just one big thing going wrong. The
investigative system needs time to do its job.
I have two young female pilot friends, one who
just passed her regional jet checkride at her
airline, and another one heading off to the Delta
Connection Academy in Florida to start her
education toward an airline career. I know this
crash will heighten their own awareness as to
just how critical in nature a pilot's job is.
Flying is so much fun, yet our own lives and the
lives of our passengers are still on the line
every time we take the controls of an airplane
and a crash such as this is such a sobering
event.
I hope we find out the truth about all the
contributing factors to this crash, although
investigations typically take months. Whatever
is found, it won't bring back the many lives lost
but can only serve to prevent related accident
causes in the future. My thoughts and deepest
sympathy, surely along with my readers, go out to
all involved and I hope the investigation helps
prevent anything similar from happening ever
again.
There have been many sad days in aviation, along
with so many miracles associated with flight.
With the very good comes the very bad, although
the ratio of safe flying to dangerous flying
remains extraordinarily high.
Meryl" has to do with circling approaches Circling Approaches
First a couple of notes:
Those of you who are interested in home flight
simulators, don't forget tomorrow morning's
interview with the manufacturers of the TrackIR,
a device I wouldn't be without when flying from
home. Here once again are the details of the
call and Al The Web Guy will post a link to that
interview afterwards if you can't make it.
Date: Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
Time: 11:00 AM Pacific Time (adjust for your own time zone)
Number to call: 1-620-782-2200 Access Code: 69728
Link to the Product with discount:
http://trackir.naturalpoint.com/fromthecockpit
How to submit questions: Submit to me at
support@fromthecockpit.com and put TrackIR in the
subject OR you may have a chance to ask questions
during the call. If you already know you have a
question, best to do it in advance to make sure
it gets covered.
Also, for those of you interested in the
children's series Violet the Pilot, I just
received my copy of "Violet the Pilot in the
Arctic," fourth in the series, by my friend and
author Bettina Jenkins Bathe, a Canadian pilot.
Her site is www.violetthepilot.com for purchasing
and other information.
One more item, and that is I'd like to thank the
dozens of people who wrote after last week's
Update entitled "The Burger King Connection." A
Burger King manager, higher up than the two
managers I dealt with getting hospital meals
delivered for my friend Myrna, called and we
spoke for quite awhile about the integrity and
good-heartedness of the two girls involved--Trudy
and Annie.
His tone when he called was so serious that my
initial thought was, "Uh-oh! I got them in
trouble." That wasn't the case at all, however.
He just called to tell me how proud he was of
them as employees and as people. If anyone lives
nearby, it's the Burger King in Elgin, Illinois
at 1150 N. Mclean. I hope you'll stop by and be
sure to tell Annie and/or Trudy Cap'n Meryl sends
her regards. I'm still hoping to get a photo of
both of them for my photo gallery.
Another meal or two has found its way to my
friend Myrna's room at the convalescent facility,
and she's scheduled to return home at last later
this week. She went into the hospital July 5th
and sounds so relieved to be finally going home.
If you missed my previous Updates, Myrna is a
retired crew scheduler for United I've known for
over twenty years, going through her second war
with cancer.
I'm going to keep this Update reasonably short,
but I do want to at least acknowledge the Comair
crash in Lexington as I'm being deluged with
questions and comments about it.
Even a crash like this which seems to have an
obvious cause warrants a full investigation. I'm
in no position to judge why this crash happened
and it's inappropriate to jump to conclusions.
There always seems to be facts uncovered which
color the initial rush to judgment. Fatigue is
often a factor when accidents just don't make
sense, and it's a fact that accidents are almost
always the result of several things going wrong
and not just one big thing going wrong. The
investigative system needs time to do its job.
I have two young female pilot friends, one who
just passed her regional jet checkride at her
airline, and another one heading off to the Delta
Connection Academy in Florida to start her
education toward an airline career. I know this
crash will heighten their own awareness as to
just how critical in nature a pilot's job is.
Flying is so much fun, yet our own lives and the
lives of our passengers are still on the line
every time we take the controls of an airplane
and a crash such as this is such a sobering
event.
I hope we find out the truth about all the
contributing factors to this crash, although
investigations typically take months. Whatever
is found, it won't bring back the many lives lost
but can only serve to prevent related accident
causes in the future. My thoughts and deepest
sympathy, surely along with my readers, go out to
all involved and I hope the investigation helps
prevent anything similar from happening ever
again.
There have been many sad days in aviation, along
with so many miracles associated with flight.
With the very good comes the very bad, although
the ratio of safe flying to dangerous flying
remains extraordinarily high.
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