Lee,

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 02:24:24 -0700, Lee Jones wrote:

> ASRS is the Aviation Safety Reporting System.  Excellent resource.

Indeed - the CAA here has CHIRP (Confidential Human-factors Incident Reporting System).  Highlights are 
published every month, and make very good reading - unless you're a nervous passenger, of course!  Seeing what 
other people did wrong is a very good way to equip yourself not to do the same things.  

"Pilot" magazine here has an item each month entitled "I learned about flying from that" which is a story of 
something that went wrong, contributed by readers.  I did wonder about writing in with my own story - my log 
book shows "Heavy takeoff!" and the thing I learned is that when you are the pilot, you devote all the 
brainpower it needs to do that job properly, and ignore any banter that's going on between passengers, however 
interesting it is to join in.  I *very* nearly put the aircraft into some crops (about 3' high) that were 
growing beside the runway...

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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