Originally Posted by
Airhoss
I've got over 500 hours in an SNJ. That is a pitot tube. If your friend wants to argue the fact he's welcome to but anybody with the smallest modicum of aviation knowledge knows that is a pitot tube.
LIGHTENING rod!! That's rich!
Tell your friend that it's never to late to stop smoking crack.
Wow that's cool. It looks like a thrilling machine to fly in. But I'm sure your 500 hours behind the controls mean nothing because he saw it on the History Channel
The argument was pretty pointless, but I just couldn't help it. A lightning rod, seriously? Since when did the history channel show an SNJ and say "this tube on the right wing is a lightning rod. it's used to protect the airplane from being struck by lightning."
I remember the time I first took him flying. On the way there, he started to worry and I asked him what was wrong. Well, he was worried of the "small chance that something could be internally wrong, and that the wings could fly off." I tried to tell him that wasn't going to happen, and doing a traffic pattern in a C172 was no less safe than driving on a busy LA freeway, but he would not listen.
I then concluded it and told him we must also worry about the flying goats and how they do significant structural damage when struck. Gotta watch out for those.