All I’m saying is there has been a clear pattern of people jumping the gun on pulling the CAPS chute when a forced landing could be safer. Just from the video I can see that there is a wide road available for landing. Personally, I would opt to make a controlled landing, if a spot is available. Of course, (like I said…

As a pilot, I would consider the parachute to be less of a guarantee of a safe landing then a forced, but controlled, landing. It has nothing to do with pride, and on those points I entirely agree. As a matter of fact there was an accident in a cirrus in which the two instructors on board purposely entered a spin,…

Yet another Cirrus pilot popping a chute when other alternatives may well have been safer. That plane still drops at a spine crushing 1,800 FPM under the canopy! Hardly “slowly” as the article says. Lucky he didn’t land on anyone. Of course, there might have been other circumstances that made the chute pop more…

Bill Nye is not anti-gmo, hes very clear about it. He believes that scientist can alter specific plants and certainly know the outcome, and they would be perfectly safe. HOWEVER, these people cannot know how these altered plants will effect the ecosystem in which they are placed. a GMO plant may prove to have…