Oh good. As a PPL working on an instrument rating this gladdens my heart. The aviation community isn’t just pilots. Many folks contribute to safety including ATC, first responders, SAR, aerospace engineers, investigators and many more. If you’d like a sense of how invested some of these people are in flight safety, listen to ATC recordings of incidents where you can hear back chatter between control facilities.
This guys actions show a lack of appreciation for the work these people do and the care they put into that work.
There’s also the risk of forest fire.
I think the cherry on top would be if the USFS got him for littering.
There are very, very few things that get my goat like a willfully irresponsible pilot. What really bothers me though are the CFIs who keep signing these guys' flight reviews. I trained pilots for years and it is in-your-face, flashing-neon-sign obvious when someone like this walks through the door.
As someone barely qualified for MS FlightSim I think it's amazing how so many people, on the OG thread on HN and the Reddit ones I saw could point out things that made the whole scenario look odd. Pointing out little things that just made sense after it was laid out.
Terrible but educational. And also neat that so many "amateurs" could see the same flaws.
This guys actions show a lack of appreciation for the work these people do and the care they put into that work.
There’s also the risk of forest fire.
I think the cherry on top would be if the USFS got him for littering.