boscomantico wrote:
An AFIS is a very clearly (ICAO)-defined scope of service. First and foremost, an AFIS is an ATS, whereas a “Radio” station is not. So be careful by using the term AFIS to denote “the man on the radio”.Good point, my mistake. It’s like the difference between Siegerland Info (real AFIS) and Breitscheid Info (just some Flugleiter) in Germany.
Yesterday, my wife and I read the beginning of St Exupery’s Wind, Sand and Stars
We love this book.
It describes the first flights of St Exupery as an apprentice than an air mail pilot :
So the Pilot is a mix of a knight confronting the dragon and a proletarian
Guillaumet is the only friendly guy who mentors him and teaches him what to expect along the route.
It stroke me how the Aeropostale spirit is exactly the spirit of most french aviation today.
And how this atmosphere of fatality is the opposite of modern human factors and safety culture.
Does anyone who read this book feel the same ?
St Ex is revered in this part of France and yes I suppose there is that sort of sense amongst the pilots I know, whatever they fly.
@Jujupilote, my Private flight instructor described flying to me as the last activity in which government would have no particular reaction if you or anybody were kill yourself doing it, therefore the ultimate personal responsibility and the last genuine freedom left to the average guy. While I hope the pendulum swings back on that state of affairs before I’m gone, GA remains a wonderful thing.