Jim Davis has 15,000 hours of immensely varied flying experience, including 10,000 hours civil and military flying instruction. He is an established author, his current projects being an instructors’ manual and a collection of Air Accident analyses, called ‘Choose not to Crash’.
Jim’s Analysis
You may be wondering what formation display aerobatics in a jet has to do with day-to-day safety in general aviation. Read on – it concerns us all. My aim with this column is to highlight dangerous situations, behaviours and attitudes, and then try to persuade live pilots not to follow the poor decisions made by the now dead ones.
The key word is discipline.
When Bob Hoover was asked where he learned to do low-level aerobatics, he famously replied, “at 10,000 feet.”
Well, I
