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Steve, maybe I am not the norm, but I sure don't take off my seat belt, EVER, while I am flying. And that includes when I am in a plane capable of acro , or just my Bonanza or an airliner unless I am going to the restroom. And I wear it all the time I am driving, not just on freeways or weekdays or any other bad reason.
Sure, I may have not have it as tight as it will go all the time, and part of my landing checklist is to snug it up, but I don't unbuckle it. What purpose does that serve? I can't imagine wanting to fly along with a chute half on and half off.That would be like having fire insurance on your house that was only good for every other day.
Yes, but you're thinking proactively. I never take my restraints off while flying either. If everyone thought that way, I'd be out of a job. It's that big "I'm too good/lucky/smart/etc....it won't happen to me" attitude among pilots creeping up again. We see it all the time on forums like this one.
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My idea on safety is that it is up to me to cut down the danger by not doing dumb stuff, like low level vertical acro, or too much scud running or imc sneaking through or takiing off with a dead mag, or going with my chute half buckled,
For the rest of the danger spectrum ,that is up to luck or God or whatever, and that part is something we can't control all the time.
Thank you for that. I've had too many friends whose last contribution to aviation was to be reduced to a series of numbers on a spreadsheet to track safety and injury information. I hope to never have to do it for someone I know ever again and that's why I do the work I do (to try to prevent that). We may not always see eye to eye Bill, but I do consider you a 'friend' in a way simply because you're a fellow pilot. Same goes for the rest of the motley crew on here.