On last night’s “I shouldn’t be alive” on TV, we had the story of an English guy studying wildlife in Zimbabwe. He sets off in a microlight to track some rhinos, and then while watching the rhinos and not flying the aeroplane, he gets into trouble.
When he described what happened next, all I could think was.. This guy shouldn’t be alive – he’s too stupid to live!!!
He said “I had what is known as a wing stall” (wingdrop for the rest of us). He then said “I pushed the rudder right in and pulled back – I did everything right but it wasn’t working”. And then he hit the ground. WTF????? This guy’s a frickin’ idiot!!!!
For anyone out there who hasn’t done stalling yet, when you get into a stall, DO NOT PULL BACK!!!!! This guy must have had no training before he got into a microlight, which makes him a dumbass, and if he had training, then it makes him a lying sack of shit to go on a documentary and tell us to pull back when the plane stalls. For people who are afraid of flying already, we don’t need to give them another misconception about flying – people hear enough bullshit about flying without this guy adding to it!
8 comments:
...probably pushed the wrong rudder pedal as well... :-(
Yeah, what a plonker, Rodney!!
Damn I missed it. And they say stupidity kills...
Yeah, he was too stupid to live, really...
I read an Albert Einstein quote somewhere recently which said that the difference between mans knowledge and mans stupidity is that mans knowledge has a limit.
> when you get into a stall, DO NOT PULL BACK!!!!!
Unless you're inverted...
@euan: I like that quote, must write that down somewhere!
@ex... : The only thing inverted about this guy was his head and ass!!
Actually guys, if he's flying a microlight the correct response may well be to pull back depending on the aircraft
Did they say what sort of microlight - three axis or flex wing?
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