Air Safety

Wires – They’re where you find them!

This month’s air safety story isn’t about an accident that “nearly happened”. It’s about a lot that did – and that go on happening because some people “won’t be told”.

We’re talking about wire strikes. Not about those unfortunate ag pilots who sometimes tangle with powerlines, despite their best professional efforts to allow for them (when all’s said and done by chair-borne pontificators, it has to be admitted that powerlines are an occupational hazard for those valiant souls who spend their working lives flying aeroplanes over crops at zero feet).

No, the victims we mean are those pilots (for the most part with private licences) who succumb to the temptation to indulge in a spur-of-the-moment beat-up in places where Examiners of Airmen and their ilk are unlikely to see them. The personal tragedies and loss of perfectly good aeroplanes that are usually the result seem all the more distressing when you realise that none of them need happen.

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