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Barefoot Bandit compares himself to Wright Brothers

Hope this punk shares a cell with Jerry Sandusky...

http://www.generalaviationnews.com/2012 ... -brothers/

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Re: Barefoot Bandit compares himself to Wright Brothers

They say # of landings should equal takeoffs.... I don't know how many takeoffs this guy made but as far as I heard he has yet to make a landing (but plenty of crashes). he's really kidding himself with the "nobody else in the world coulda done what I did" bit. I'm hoping they can get some of his remarks into the record before sentencing.
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He's just a misguided child, we should have sypathy for him and those like him. Infact we should provide free aircraft and avgas to 'deserving' children such as him. He really worked hard to achieve his level of rare skills and experience and should be rewarded.......

...with the removal of all his fingers. pretty hard to fly again without thumbs. Let him 'finger' that one out.
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His mom proclaimed he should be let out of prison to pilot emergency missions to Haiti. The guy is as delusional as his mom. It's not surprising considering that his marbles are thoroughly melted by his mom's alcoholic pregnancy. I'll bet that tragedy won't make it into the movie. We can all be pissed off at this sort of thing, but I never saw the point in hating folks who are that screwed up. He's in a better place now for all of us. Hopefully, this silly movie idea can pay the victims back, in contrast to the bailed-out, delusional financial criminals who are still held by many as true-blue American heroes.

I've let plenty of elementary-aged kids do 70% of the 'flying' their first time in a plane from takeoff to approach- with plenty of guidance of judgement coming from the left seat. The basic mechanical skills involved are no great accomplishment. The skills needed to fly safely and consistently are what deserve all the respect, not the simple mechanical skills of 'driving' the plane.

Anyone can 'drive' a large, $500 million dollar Italian cruise ship, right? :P
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Just sentenced in federal court. 6 1/2 years, concurrent, with the state sentence. He'll be out in a year or so :evil:

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/barefoot ... yMGeIHnsUV

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So let me get this straight.... 7 hears * 12 = 84 mo / 33 counts = a whopping 2.5 months per count! Wow that's
a real deterant. Next thing you know we'll just giveup issuing pilots lienses cause the kids that just learned from
his demonstrations and over the top attitude bout it don't need them anymore....
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He is the greatest!
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