afraid to speak??

Flying_Corporal

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Two airplanes at an uncontrolled airport got almost on a top of each other recently. At the last moment one went around.

What seemed puzzling was that there were 3 airplanes holding short of the rwy. Their pilots had a full view of this event. Noone spoke on the radio to warn the two aircraft.

The thinking I guess is that if you say sth and sth does happen you could be dragged into court and held accountable.

Pretty sad if the legal system makes us be that way...
 
Mate I would always speak up - I know one of my mates has called the tower twice in one day warning the plane on final did not have its gear down.

It is like seeing a lost kid. As a young male is it better to leave the kid, as if the kids father (or anyone) sees you approaching a kid, they are likely to beat the crap out of you, or do you stop and help the kid, knowing that if you do not the kid could fall into harmful hands???

I think the guilt from not trying would be worse, then the courts.

I would not be surprised if the people holding short did not realise what was going on - maybe they were focused on only the one aircraft, or they thought there was enough seperation.

Aviation is a pretty friendly community even with all the lawyers who are apart of it!
 
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I would not be surprised if the people holding short did not realise what was going on - maybe they were focused on only the one aircraft, or they thought there was enough seperation.


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Nope. The guy who told me story was number one holding short. He said he didn't say anything because he was told never say anything in these situations.

Even twr controllers carefully select their words (e.g. "It appears that ..." ). I am not even sure they would say anything to you if your gear wasn't down.
 
If someone has a chance to prevent and accident, injury, death, and just sits there and watches it happen - that says more about their character then it does the judicial system.

People say that if you perform CPR and do it wrong, and the person dies you can be prosecuted - that is not true. I am confident that this falls under the same umbrella.
 
Me and my Flight Instructor were holding short Saturday and the plane behind us told us on the radio that they felt there was something wrong with the door. We checked it out (nothing was wrong) but we were most appreciative for them watching our a$$es.

Its called the good samaritan law that covers you if you act with sense in certain situations like CPR. Hopefully that laws covers aviation as well.
 
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