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LOL, I actually didn’t know that meme, but that’s perfect. The closest I’ve ever been to experiencing my own death was trying to figure out how terrain following radar worked on one of the DCS planes. I was bopping along in IMC and had maybe a fifth of a second to comprehend the side of the mountain I was shortly to fly into. My brain started to formulate “oh sh-“ but didn’t even get to the full point of conscious realization before it was lights out.

When it’s my time to go, I can only hope it’s that quick.




I live in Alaska, and this is why flying at night/IMC is strongly not recommended. Local CAP squadron just did a search and rescue this morning for someone who this happened to.




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