Warbird Information Exchange

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I know of someone who recently died in an ultralight while texting. They found the phone in that mode, covered in blood. Imagine how the guy’s family reacted to that knowledge, especially when they found he died texting someone what his favorite football team was. I work in insurance and read something once that said a very high percentage of texts are utterly useless. It said that a really high percentage of all texts simply say, “What’s up?” or something to the effect. You want to report in at the pearly gates explaining you died for a text, especially one that had no important message of any kind?
A teenage girl died very badly within sight of my house while texting recently. She met a large van head-on on a country highway. Thankfully the other driver walked away from the accident and was in a company van, but think of what that poor guy has to live with for the rest of his life. He didn’t do anything wrong and you know he’ll always think of that in the light of, “I should have been able to avoid her.”

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Inspector, I didn't mean in an airliner. I meant in the Fairchild. There's no ATC on the routes where I fly it up here, and I don't have a transponder. And being a vintage airplane, sometimes the plan changes. Hence sending an ETA text once safely up at cruise, and often over rough terrain.

But I absolutely agree with you about not texting in a car. I don't do it, and I instructed my kids not to.

With the airline, I turn my cellphone off as soon as I set my flight bag down in the cockpit. I need to make a break at that point. It's important to get one's head in the game.

Dave

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