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From: "Dan Schaefer" <dfs155@roadrunner.com>
Subject: Re: [LML] Re: videos
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If you think the low pass by the Legacy in the video is somehow a dangerous 
maneuver, I hope you never fly into the airport where I learned to fly many 
years ago (Long Beach, CA.)  or any like it - i.e. very busy, four runways 
in a tic-tac-toe arrangement plus a corner-to-corner long runway for the 
(many) airliners. Because if you can't accept a go-around from the tower 
with instructions to fly runway heading until past the departure end of the 
runway (which results in a mandatory pass very much like the the one in the 
video) then your training for such a situation is woefully incomplete.

Add to the fact that in such a case (the go-around), you're pretty busy 
getting the power up and the airplane cleaned up, ensuring that you have a 
positive, or at least not negative, rate of climb - all the while staying on 
center line and keeping your eyes peeled as to what caused the ruckus, while 
in the low pass, you must just fly the airplane. Very close to the same 
maneuver but without all the pilot work-load.

If the low pass is either dangerous, illegal or both, then there many, many 
controllers and pilots out there who've been screwing up forever!

Flame shorts on,

Dan Schaefer 


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