cappy208
Guru
You mean.... Because I put my finger in a light socket (and survived) does not mean I am an electrician? Say It Ain't So, Joe.Lucky to get ACROSS...
You mean.... Because I put my finger in a light socket (and survived) does not mean I am an electrician? Say It Ain't So, Joe.Lucky to get ACROSS...
Lucky to get ACROSS...
When I retired from a career in flying, someone told me I was lucky I didn't crash in my 39 years and 15,000 flight hours of flight, much of it in high density areas at low altitude. This was from someone who doesn't fly and never will...knows nothing of the flight training, risk mitigation, mission preparation or crew concepts that made it possible to perform the duties confidently and safely. To him, I was lucky. To me, I was prepared and skilled. It all depends on your perspective and familiarity with the subject, I suppose.
When I retired from a career in flying, someone told me I was lucky I didn't crash in my 39 years and 15,000 flight hours of flight, much of it in high density areas at low altitude. This was from someone who doesn't fly and never will...knows nothing of the flight training, risk mitigation, mission preparation or crew concepts that made it possible to perform the duties confidently and safely. To him, I was lucky. To me, I was prepared and skilled. It all depends on your perspective and familiarity with the subject, I suppose.
Hits the nail on the head!
Heck, using your analogy, the guys who ROW across the Atlantic are Professionals too. Ummm. I don't think so. There is a difference between 'getting away with it' and being professional.
You put in best in your last sentence. "It is YOUR perspective and familiarity" However, too often confidence is not met with competence.
John John was supremely confident in his Saratoga. By accounts, he flew it into the Atlantic inverted, doing around 220 knots. Hardly competent. BUT, there are scads like him around (both in the air, and on the water) who are 'deemed' to be competent. But the reality is somewhat less than desirable.
Even the "Captain" of the HMS Bounty was considered competent by his peers. Look at the fine mess he put himself (and his crew) in!
You mentioned a lot of training, planning, and industry standard regulations that you follow to have a safe flight plan.
In the Marine industry NO ONE is excused from following the rules of prudent seamanship, and the Colregs. Sailing singlehanded for many days violates SO many rules, nevermind common sense. However this post cries out for 'special recognition' for someone who does exactly the wrong thing.
How about we nominate him for a 'Nobel Prize'? Seems you don't have to actually DO anything to get one of those anyway.
"There is some controversy about the legality of sailing single-handed over long distances. The International Maritime Organization navigation rules require that "Every vessel shall at all times maintain a proper look-out by sight and hearing as well as by all available means appropriate in the prevailing circumstances and conditions so as to make a full appraisal of the situation and of the risk of collision."[21] Single-handed sailors can only keep a sporadic lookout, due to the need to sleep, tend to navigation, etc., raising the possibility of a collision with an unseen vessel"
I suppose there will always be nay-sayers and folks who, even though they have never done anything even close to the task, will criticize the achiever and the methods used to complete it successfully. I get it.
Actually, he was extremely competent. Certainly, Bligh was a better navigator than any captains today. He did after all navigate a 20 ft longboat through barely charted seas something like 4000 miles....Even the "Captain" of the HMS Bounty was considered competent by his peers. Look at the fine mess he put himself (and his crew) in!
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Actually, he was extremely competent. Certainly, Bligh was a better navigator than any captains today. He did after all navigate a 20 ft longboat through barely charted seas something like 4000 miles....
His people skills, OTOH, may be a debatable issue.
Absolutely. What some people like to do, is to validate their existence. No problem with that. But, it shouldn't 'need' the encouragement or congratulations of others to make the validation more 'valid'.There is a definite east - west thing going on here. just sayin'
Blah, blah, blah. People have been singlehanding across oceans for centuries if not millennia. No amount of whining or spouting of colregs here is going to change it (and shouldnt.) If your not up to the task of singlehanding across oceans, don't do it.
As some one pointed out to me, that sounds like the drunk driver defense.
"I've been doing it for years and never had an accident your honor."
I wonder how single seat fighters get across the ocean.
There are some who simply don't have the breath of experience to know what they don't know.
There are some who simply don't have the breath of experience to know what they don't know.