I’m flattered that you’ve featured my musical parody of Bauer’s severe “judgement deficit disorder!”

It occurred to me a while back that even though bad things can happen to good people, this boy is a freakin’ lighting rod!

Much more is wrong with his personality than a momentary lapse of common sense as some may attempt to rationalize it. In the events leading up to the crash, Bauer had a cascade failure of judgement when he ignored one safety protocol after another involving “things you do not do and live” as a pilot. It was more than I could fit into the song, hence the links to the reports included with the email.

I also had the input of two pilots who have studied the reports. Bauer is the prominent bad example used by the flying community here in South Carolina. His incident is used to illustrate the worst possible choices a pilot can make and to show how carelessness and piloting an airplane do not mix.

His gall at then suing the carburetor manufacturer as a cover for his bad piloting skills fools no one who realizes what is required of a pilot. No matter what the condition, problems, malfunctions, lack of performance capability, etc. of an airplane, the pilot is responsible for making the “go/no-go” decision every step of the way and is always expected to abort in time if he doesn’t have enough airspeed to achieve flight–duh!

If he was too far along the too short runway to abort and without enough airspeed, he utterly failed his basic responsibility for safe piloting. The idea that his passenger, another pilot, attempted in a recent letter to the editor to excuse his recklessness–claiming that Bauer “saved” their lives–is beyond absurd.