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An accident happened about twenty years ago or so and was reported in Aviation Safety. It's one that you never forget because the perfectly running Cessna slammed into mountainous terrain while basically flying straight and level. The female occupant ended up with her head somewhere under the pilot side instrument panel and the pilot's clothing was in sufficient disarray that the diagnosis was fairly clear. You just have to wonder after all these years if he was able to achieve the happy ending before the lights went out. No report in the article about body fluids so we are left to ponder.

Darwin awards are always there for the winning.

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On Jul 24, 2013, at 8:33 AM, "Lynn Farnsworth" <farnsworth@charter.net> wrote:

Doesn’t the mile high club only require you be at or above 5280’ in elevation??? Simple solution; find an airport that is at or above 5280’, park in a dark corner and have at it! No worries about autopilot, ATC, ROP, LOP etc.. (:

From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of swaid rahn
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 9:58 AM
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] Re: MH Club Membership for Lancair Pilots

Sounds un-professional and a lack of good judgement in this model of high performance aircraft doing 5 miles a minute. You can't safely fly if you are not mentally engaged.
Everyone has their opinion and this one is mine,
Swaid Rahn
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 7:30 AM, jeffrey liegner <liegner@ptd.net> wrote:
I have a pilot friend at the local airport that has bragged to me about his repeated renewal (in his twin Baron) of his membership in the Mile High Club. I won't bore you with the details.

But when asked with a certain level of disbelief, he comments that the membership requirement could easily be fulfilled in my Lancair IVP, and encourages me to do so with certain positional methods and advice. I remain speculative, given my level of Situational Awareness and understanding the space available in the Lancair. Still, he believes it is very possible.

Has anyone joined that Club in a Lancair, and how did you manage throttle/prop/mixture (especially LOP operations) during the membership drive? Any autopilot issues? Other insights would be interesting.

I recently completed my annual recurrency with LOBO, but I didn't discuss this crew resource management issue with my instructor.

Jeff L

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