<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hey Chris,<div><br></div><div>There's a saying in the flight test community that comes to mind:</div><div><br></div><div>"There are old pilots, and bold pilots, but no old, bold pilots".</div><div><br></div><div>Jerry<br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Budd Engineering</div><div><a href="mailto:jerry@buddengineering.com">jerry@buddengineering.com</a></div><div><a href="http://www.buddengineering.com">http://www.buddengineering.com</a></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On Jul 1, 2008, at 10:09 PM, chris moon wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">I had a DC-10 flight engineer instructor who used to say you can try<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>anything you want....once. If you are still alive after that, maybe you<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>can try it again. That was his way of strongly suggesting that you<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>might want to follow the flight manuals and not get creative on your own<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>inside a 400,000lb airplane. I will never forget his message.<br><br>Chris<br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>