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To: GARY P GROBBEL who wrote (44261)	12/6/2005 5:02:01 PM
From: Cal Amari	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 120413

I assuming the "tape" you are referring to was the same one in from my post earlier today here: Message 21948469 A close friend of mine was an air traffic controller for over a decade - he says that the tape and the jargon on it all sound very real. He also validated the principle that no pilot would ever needlessly make a false statement of this magnitude for fear of the punishing mountain of paperwork that would follow - such as articulated here (the following text was not authored by me or by my friend): movermike.com "I am a pilot with many advanced ratings. All pilots loathe making reports of emergency situations of any kind. More than that, a report of a sighting is something that would only be motivated by total conviction. The degree of paperwork required by the FAA for even a simply medical emergency is beyond your wildest imagination. This pilot's report was in no way a bottle rocket. That is totally absurd at a world class level. A flair launches slowly and arcs over. A pilot climbing out at 200 knots is 150 knots faster than the quickest flair. ... "