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September 2007
Next meeting: Saturday,
September 2, 2007
At the Clubhouse, Knutsford strip
Time: 10am.
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President's Letter
Dick
Suttie.
Quilchena
Dan
Berwin came over to Knutsford to join some of the
other fellows and fly for lunch at Quilchena.
Here are some pictures he sent me.
Larry,
Geralr, Tony, Bill and Dan.
Tony
landing at Quilchena
Editor's
Soapbox
When
my brother Robert first came to BC after his
leukemia went into remission, I took him hiking
to the Drewdrop Range. We were below the cliffs
in the middle of this picture when he told me he
would return to Québec and liquidate all his
assets and come back to live in BC. He had some
great years here, hunting and fishing, and for a
while even went to work in the Territories and
North of Stewart. He died in 2005, and I spread
his ashes here.
I
got my propeller back from the RCMP. They went to
the area to investigate, but nobody saw or heard
anything on the evening I got shot at. That blade
will be a good conversation piece!
I
did some work on the Proton's nose, installed
some caliber 50 machine guns on the boom tubes,
and am now in the process of building 6
air-to-ground missiles.....
The
Salmon Arm Fly-In was last week-end, and I could
not fly because of the rain.
Gerald
with his Renegade on August 1st.
Gerald
trying Dick's Beaver RX-550
West
of the Dewdrop Range, you can see those cliffs
acrofss from the 6-Mile Viewpoint.
The
glof course at 6-Mile Ranch, or Tobiano.
Did
you ever wonder what was at the bottom of the
hole at Afton?
TOO
MUCH INFORMATION
By Barry Meek
A young woman went to her
doctor complaining of abdominal
pain. “I think it’s your gall
bladder,” said the doc. “That
sounds pretty serious,” she
replied. “I would like to get a second
opinion”. The doctor became frustrated
and said, “That IS a second
opinion. At first I thought it was your
appendix”.
That particular doctor was
probably over 50, a first-liner of the Boomer
generation. In his growing up years, the
advice of an expert was taken at it’s face
value. It was the final word, gospel, to be
believed without question. But that’s
changed. The ‘post-boomers’ have
evolved more educated and informed. The
fact is that back as late as 1960, only 15% of
Canadians had completed high school. Today
that number is over 85%. Through the
‘60’s and 70”s, there was no
internet, no cell phones, few televisions, and
cable was non-existent. Simply put,
information was nowhere near as available to us
as it is today. On the other hand, people
who are under 30 have grown up with almost
unlimited access to information and
knowledge. Television, with cable and
satellite connections, has been highly
instrumental in the changes. More
recently, the internet has evolved and
compares with electricity as our most important
invention in history.
We’re now able to go
on-line and get a second, third, even sixth
opinion, then rightly or wrongly, make a
judgement on a diagnosis. And not with just
a medical decision, but when we have a legal,
real-estate, plumbing, travel, vehicle or
gardening problem. No longer do we need to
consult the ‘experts’. Our
exposure to all this information has taken the
mystique from doctors, lawyers, plumbers,
teachers, and mechanics.
Second guessing and
individualism go out the window however, when we
get onboard an airliner. No one challenges
the pilot. The flight deck is still a place
where the captains’ decisions and actions
are clearly his, and his alone.
Flying the ‘heavy’ is a concept so
mysterious in the minds of most people, that it
would be inconceivable to question the
pilot. All the television viewing and
internet surfing in the world wouldn’t
change that fact. When was the last time a
passenger approached the flight deck in an A-340
or a 747 and wanted to check the entries in the
flight computer?
For some reason, most people
seem to feel safe and secure flying the airlines,
but have their doubts in a single engine Cessna,
even in a light twin. They have many
questions, and in fact may be completely
terrorized by what they’re
seeing. And, perhaps because
they’re sitting so close to the pilot, they
sometimes have no problem speaking up. have
been questioned when someone in the back seat
observes me looking at a checklist in the
operators manual, or re-setting radio
frequencies, when we’re scud running, and
when I have a screwdriver in my hand!
What’s with the tools you ask?
Actually, I’d been disconnecting the battery
cable on my car prior to a flight one time, and
being in a hurry, stuffed the screwdriver and
some pliers into my pocket.
The point is that airline
passengers, even post-Boomers who may be doubtful
of the outcome of their flight, don’t
actually offer their opinion on how the captain
ought to proceed with the operation of the
aircraft. These same individuals however,
are not above suggesting to their lawyer or
doctor or banker what they think he/she should be
doing in their best
interest.
We’ve entered an age
where the public, armed with this huge, easy
access to information, demands input.
Companies, organizations, even governments are
responding with websites and e-mail addresses
where we can contact them with queries, demands
and suggestions. There aren’t
many sanctuaries remaining where life and
procedures go on unquestioned. The flight
deck of the airliner seems to be one domain
however, that will survive unchanged, where
responsibility rests with the one person charged
with the job. The flying public may have
doubts, but the captains are rarely
challenged. And that’s the way it has
to be.
bcflyer@propilots.net
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published by Camille
We
welcome your feedback. And we could also use some
help with the newsletter. Photo would be great!
And articles of any length will be gladly
accepted! If you would like to contribute with
photos, flying stories, or project updates,
contact:
President:
Dick Suttie, 1-250-374-6136 richard_suttie@telus.net
Vice-President: Dennis Seib 1-250-573-3714 dseib@mail.ocis.net
Newsletter Editor: Camille Villeneuve
1-250-374-4181 villeneuve@shaw.ca
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