I’m sure your right, As Horse has pointed out I’m not an expert and all my PA 38 Tomahawk landings were awful, my instructor was a nervous wreck
RIP - a real Top Gun. https://theaviationgeekclub.com/dale-snort-snodgrass-legendary-us-navy-f-14-tomcat-pilot-killed-in-in-the-crash-of-a-siai-marchetti-sm-1019?fbclid=IwAR0RXyDUhqbftGRlnvPPtNFHpfnzPjoCKFfFcJ4TkMlaFb1Zzt6s_IUuVa0
Yep - any old idiot could pull off 1200+ carrier landings in a Tomcat day or night, plus everything else this legend did.
Personally never liked the F-14. Thought it was strictly for poofs. Maybe it was the volleyball scene…. Real men flew F-15s or F-4s.
Aryton Senna, Jim Clark and Jochen Rindt died by crashing their F1 cars, so they couldn’t have been very good drivers, right?
You forgot Alberto Ascari , Mike Hawthorn and Giuseppe Farina in his Lotus Cortina ! Farina was on his way to do the driving doubles for Yves Montand in the 1966 movie "Grand prix '
Yep, suffering a mechanical failure that renders you a passenger makes you a **** driver. yes that’s correct - in my rush I forgot, and of course this compounded the loss, that it wasn’t even an F1 race that took his life. True too that there’s a long list of brilliant drivers and pilots who have died pushing the limits, or due to mechanical failure that rendered them no more than passengers.
I knew it anyway,I could even tell you where I was when he was killed! and that night reading the Herald papers full page on wee Jimmy .
