Dick,
But you could practice all you want, you could practice these in every
situation you listed, upside down or whatever, but it is
human nature to freeze or lock up when something happens for real, under
that kind of stress, the mind can go blank, and sorry I
rather not practice wrecking so I can learn 4 or 5 steps for the correct
process in doing things. Its a chance that I would take
letting a fail-safe inertia switch do its job for me so I can practice
trying to stay alive....
Jonathan Amo
Dick J wrote:
Being in several wrecks myself, my
> mind isn't there going through a checklist, im more
> curious on whets happening, but those
> that have been in a wreck, it goes by to damn
> fast to react sometimes anyway.
This comment of yours brought to mind a means of
training used in combat aircraft called "Bold
Face Procedures". Those are the required actions
taken by pilots under "un-planned" flying
conditions. They are practiced over and over
again until the reaction is like a monkey hitting
a yellow button to get a bannana and hitting a
blue one to get water. There are different
procedures for such situations as stall warning,
turbine failure, double engine failure, hydraulic
failure, electrical failure, etc. etc. Well, you
get the idea. In race cars, we really only need
one or two: "car will not drive or steer any more
because of some system failure" and; "FIRE!".
I've "heard" somebody say on this list how they
practiced putting the car out of gear, reaching
for the chute, and the fire bottle, etc, a coupe
of times before starting a race. Each driver
ought to practice the emergency procedures for
his car over and over again until he can do them
all in proper sequence, with his eyes closed,
while upside down, sideways, or backwards. Once
you practice them in the car and in the ol'
Barco-lounger a few thousand times, go to the
playground with the kids and try going through
them while swinging on a swing, or riding one of
those foot-powered merry-go-rounds. (Hey, the
kids will just think you're tryihng to do the
Macarena.) You could even try it while doing
underwater somersaults in the pool. This may
sound like "overkill" but Keith, or anybody else
here who has done any combat aircraft time will
tell you that it's the only way to go. You don't
need to be sorting out your choices when the
wheels start to leave the ground or go sideways,
or when you realize it's getting very hot in the
cockpit!
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..........Dick J.............
......(In East Texas)........
....FX/GMR SC/P250-2........
.....Shelby 427 Cobra.......
.Hemis and Flatheads Forever.
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