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Denny,
I don't think the offedning pilot was a CFI. The story as understand it was a PPL and a student pilot (not his student) on the way to a fly-in from somewhere in Penn to North Carolina. I would also like to know how many hours he had. This may be a case of newly minted (license to learn) pilot just making a bone head play. Even so - show poor planning and decision making he needs to be on the ground for a while.
If it where a CFI it'e even worse.
Regardless, AOPA and the pilot community should not shelter this guy. We need to be outraged. We need to show an ilinformed public that we as a group are concerned and take action. If we don't then the public will feel like it's us and against them and action and probably dispaporttionate action may be taken.
My worst fear is that we will lose VFR flight priviledges country wide and that will deal a sever blow to GA. Not this time but the next time or possibly somewhere in the near future.
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