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    As all who love flight seek to understand when one of us departs our ranks, what can be learned and dispersed amoung us so we don’t have to mourn another pilot and friend. Or they us. Time will tell if something can be learned from this sad loss. What we all know for sure today is, our Kitfox family is diminished greatly.

    Sincere condolences Reid to you and to Pierre’s family.


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    Hi Reid,

    So sorry to hear of this sad accident and condolences to you and Pierre's family.

    For you to post in such a factual way that provides timely and focussed reflection on short field flying is a great way of honouring your friend and providing a lasting and useful legacy to our community.

    Once again thanks for the post and safe flying.

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    I too am saddened by this, Reid. I know what it's like to lose friends in flying accidents. As Ross said, you honor Pierre by reminding us all that life can be too short, and some things that we love to do can very deeply affect so many people when the unthinkable happens. It's a good reminder to me, to let my family and friends know, often, just how much they mean to me. You just never know. Godspeed to your friend.
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    Sorry to hear Reid, always hard to lose a friend too early.

    Not saying this was part of your friends accident at all but the one thing I don’t like about the 914 is the waste gate failure mode is wide open. Which means if your waste gate cable slips at the wrong time, you’re making around 2/3s the HP you were planning on.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lthrnek89 View Post
    So... what you are ALL saying is that I should get years of flying experience and then just purchase the 20 acres from my neighbor and cut the tress down. I think we could pull that off.

    I have been in an aviation family my entire-life... ( father was a Marine Aviator for 26 years and I was a powerline/crew-chief on F/A-18s in the Marines for 10 years)

    so I have learned two things regarding aircraft accidents:

    1) Sh!t happens clause.. the unforeseeable with aircraft or personnel (health)
    2) Mitigating Risk.... manage risk... to reduce the possibility of an accident


    I get it... thanks again!
    I think it's hours of flying time... in various locations. How fast you accrue them in a year or years... well, that's up to you.

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    So sorry to hear about the accident and the loss of your friend Reid. That's really tough.

    Thanks for using this opportunity to challenge us all to be safer. There are so many things that can be done to make us safer. Training, experience, sharing our close calls and stupid moments. A couple things I always preach to other pilots is "margin, margin, margin" and that we need to be "thinking pilots".
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