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ByronMFox(at)aol.com
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 Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 3:44 pm Post subject: A letter to the RPA |
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Thanks for your initiative, Mark. Perhaps we can put this discussion to rest. I concur with your suggestion if only because the rant has become as wearisome as listening to my once adolescent sons discuss the merits of automobile seat belts and driving in flip-flops. For all I care, my wingman can wear a thong just so he doesn't run into me. ...Blitz
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viperdoc(at)mindspring.co
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| Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 4:33 pm Post subject: A letter to the RPA |
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Mark, All,
I really do not care what you were when flying your YAK/CJ/Albatros/Mig ect. I have not seen anyone denied training at a clinic that I have organized in the name of the RPA or Red Air. You can fly in your under ware for all I care.
If you fly in my aircraft all I care about is that your pockets are empty! Nota….nothing…empty…that is all I want. The flight suit provides flash protection in an ejection not shake and bake protection after a pancake. It is a place to keep items secure in the pockets. I personally carry a multipurpose knife when I fly. When I have flown in jeans with it in my pocket, I have had to hunt it down in the cockpit after an episode of acro. So I went back to wearing a flight suit or a pair of shorts during the hot months with secure pockets so that damned knife does not end up in my torque tube or elevator!
I agree, it is wrong to deny training based on attire. But, if you plan on flying nude don’t expect to be in my flight! Well unless she (female- she…not the she its running around in their gay way) is at least an 8,… well if she wants to hangout… ok, I‘ll buy off on that! Just don’t leave any FOD in my cockpit! The other problem see there is a flight safety one…a major distraction in fingertip for sure!
Okay, enough of that!
Wear what you want…just please secure all your pockets or empty them so you do not accidentally become a hazard because fod has screwed up your controls.
Doc
From: owner-yak-list-server(at)matronics.com [mailto:owner-yak-list-server(at)matronics.com] On Behalf Of Bitterlich, Mark G CIV Det Cherry Point, MALS-14 64E
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 5:22 PM
To: admin(at)flyredstar.org
Subject: A letter to the RPA
From: Mark Bitterlich
To: RPA Board Members
Subject: Mandatory Wearing of Flight Suits
It is the opinion of many people, including myself, that it is not in the best interests of overall General Aviation Flight Safety for the RPA to mandate the wearing of Flight Suits during training events. While it is understood that the RPA has the right and the means to set standards of its members, and especially so during operations in front of the public, it remains counter to the best interests and safety of the general flying populace to deny Formation Flight training to any person who is already properly licensed by the FAA, but who for what ever reason they declare, will not wear a Flight Suit.
It is a very safe assumption that pilots who desire to fly formation and apply to the RPA to teach them, and are then denied participation simply over the RPA rule that they must wear a flight suit, or be refused training are going to:
1. Do it anyway. And when they do, the chance of them being involved in an accident increases by a high percentage.
2. Are going to leave with a very dim view of the RPA and instead of generating support will do their best to make other pilots aware of what they perceive to be an unsubstantiated prejudice.
3. Will continue to participate in the predictable email discussions on Internet Forums, as has once again recently been the case on the "Yak List".
It is the consensus of opinion of MANY pilots, after long debate, that the additional safety that a Flight Suit provides is at best questionable. Its use in General Aviation, including Formation Flight has not received the official documentation to prove anything other than: "It seems to be a good idea by and large". But so does the wearing of Flight Boots, Flight Gloves, cotton underwear, a helmet, and every other safety item a person may care to list, military oriented or otherwise. To focus on just the flight suit, to the point of denying training is so against reasonable logic that it begs the question of an alternative agenda.
If the RPA demands that Flight Suits continue to be worn by their instructors during said training events, this of course should remain an RPA decision. However, the STUDENTS participating in said training should have the OPTION to wear a flight suit, but not the "or else" DIRECTIVE to do so.
To this end, please accept this letter as an official request to drop the mandatory wearing of Flight Suits for any and all TRAINING EVENTS, whether or not these training events also happen to coincide with RPA FLIGHT EVENTS in front of the public.
R/S,
Mark Bitterlich
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frank(at)orionite.com
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| Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 11:54 pm Post subject: A letter to the RPA |
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Wearing a uniform is a sign of subservience or submission to a higher authority. In effect, to wear a uniform suggests you are under the control of somebody or something. In order to conform people may wear any of a thousand different "uniforms". The Boy scouts, cops, the military, McDonalds and even circus clowns have to wear a "uniform".
All military members must wear a uniform.......but the commander in chief does not wear a uniform. Wouldn't it be funny if the commander in chief were required to wear a uniform? Wouldn't it suggest that he was under the control of somebody or something?
Having to wear a uniform can be a good thing. For example, if you need someone to do your fighting for you or you need someone to serve dinner in your restaurant or you need someone to enforce your laws. These people need to be controlled.
To wear a uniform is to show subservience. To wear the uniform may give the wearer a sense of pride or a sense of "belonging" i.e........ an identity that go's beyond one's own character or sense of self worth. So do you think for yourself or subject yourself to someone's authority?
Americans (Yak Drivers) are an independent lot. They resent anyone from telling them what they "HAVE" to do. Is it any wonder many people don't like to wear a uniform? It's a sign of maturity, both personally and intellectually, to realize you don't "HAVE" to wear "the clown suit" anymore. Most people who have the financial means to own and fly aircraft have gone beyond the need to "identify" with any particular, subservient group.....................Are you the chauffeur in uniform or the boss telling him what to do? To have reached the level of maturity whereby you realize you are subservient to no one signifies self reliance, rugged individualism and independence of thought that is uniquely American.
The bottom line is that it's the wimps who need the crutch of a uniform to wear.
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grbstein(at)yahoo.com
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| Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 3:50 pm Post subject: A letter to the RPA |
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Blitz -
Since it's real possibility I'll be flying off your wing in the future,
I guarantee I WILL NOT be wearing a thong!
Kurt Howerton
http://cj6.scitechsys.com
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f4ffm2(at)adelphia.net
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| Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 5:21 pm Post subject: A letter to the RPA |
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Flyin' nekkid, eh?
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On Nov 7, 2007, at 3:49 PM, Kurt Howerton wrote:
[quote]--> Yak-List message posted by: Kurt Howerton <grbstein(at)yahoo.com (grbstein(at)yahoo.com)>
Blitz -
Since it's real possibility I'll be flying off your wing in the future,
I guarantee I WILL NOT be wearing a thong!
Kurt Howerton
http://cj6.scitechsys.com
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