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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
That just glib & shows ignorance.
CASA's "crash comic" lists dozens of incidents, across a very broad spectrum of operations, sadly many are fatal.
They never say "speed was a factor".....but there are *lots* of errors/omissions/failures that can and will kill you...and if you simply choose to ignore them, it's simply a matter of "when" rather than "if".
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Ignorance my backside.... At the speeds modern aircraft are flying at they must maintain these separations to allow reaction times in the event of a failure of something or someone. This sort of separation is BUBBLE WRAPPING. It can be called nothing more and nothing less.
Military aircraft fly at much tighter separations but are only usually short flights and extreme training in this type of flight.
Just sounds like sour grapes. Fast car, no where to use it. Try a race track and have some fun. If you crash there you only kill yourself. A blowout at 200KM/hr usually doesn't leave many survivors in the drivers car or the one coming towards it.
A sneeze or a bug blown through the vent system landing in your eye can distract the driver enough to cause a crash at high speeds or even low speeds.
Sitting here reading these posts gives me the feeling that you and Stuart seem to think your driving skills should allow you to drive at whatever speed you feel like. At least Stuart practices on the track. The fact is our laws, as they stand say you can't. Get over it, go to a race track or go to Germany and drive your heart out and pray you don't end up as a German statistic.