JohnBurke

What might you have said if you made an intelligent response addressing the issue, instead of a lame-brained passive aggressive back handed attempt at an insult?

No need to apologize for your lack of experience, nor to try to compensate for it by taking a potshot.

You cited a flight activity that you don't do and have never done, and said you'd never do it, and intimated that it represented a level of stupidity, even though it's undertaken by professionals, on the job.

You suggested that those who find single engine night and IMC flying to be unacceptable and won't accept that risk, simply lacked the experience to know better. You made an assumption.

Your assumption is wrong. A great many of us, in fact most of us, have that experience, and it's precisely because we've been there and we know, that we choose another path. Your comparison, however, is a fallacy; you cite experience you don't have as the counterpoint. You end your post with the question, "who is stupid?"

Who?

2StgTurbine

As usual, JohnBurke has taken a normal thread and decided to lecture us all on how great of a pilot he is. As FlyJSH has said, I have only met a few people in life who happened to be an expert in whatever of conversation was brought up... those were long 4 days.

JohnBurke

I said nothing of my ability. The only one to say anything of "greatness" is you. Attribute the words to yourself, rather than others. In other words, speak for yourself. I speak very well for myself.

Expertise is irrelevant.

To suggest that those who are experienced couldn't possibly understand the perspective of a single engine pilot is utterly ridiculous; we got here from there. Many of us are still there.

To infer that pilots who do weather research flying are "stupid" is also utterly ridiculous. So stated, by someone who has done that.

Call that "greatness," if you wish, but remember that's your view, your words. I said nothing of the kind. What I did do is stick to the thread and contribute. What you did, and your only purpose, was to attempt to detract from a poster who was contributing to the thread.

The original premise of running low on fuel in conditions below minimums in a single engine airplane, as given, presupposes very bad judgement from the outset, and continuing practice and display of poor judgement.

We are paid for our judgement. The situation, as described, is best solved by never going there in the first place. THAT is good judgement; THAT is good airmanship. Call that "great" if you wish, but own the words. They're not mine. Good judgement isn't "great," but a basic minimum standard that is EXPECTED of an airman. If you feel this is exceptional, then therein may lie the problem.