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J.A.P. - (Just Another Pilot) (Paperback)
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J.A.P. - (Just Another Pilot) (Paperback)
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Loot Price R544
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JAP is a story about a young man who somehow, through a series of
accidents intentions, mistakes and drive became a Naval Aviator, no
mean feat by any accounts. Having survived the grim reaper several
times during his eight years of flying on active duty with the Navy
he has come to believe, sort of, that he is a good aviator and can
take care of just about anything that arises in the realm of
flying. He has disgustedly left active duty flying with the Navy as
the result of witnessing inept officers who should never have made
the grade continue to fly and serve without any leadership skills
or command authority amounting to anything effective. Most of them
were, in the young man's opinion, timid beings who were only
concerned with keeping their status quo resulting in their refusal
to make decisions let alone lead in any forward power projections.
His decision to leave the Navy and throw his lot in with the
airline pilot's career was based on his perception that an airline
captain just had to be made of stronger stuff. That idea was also
doomed to an early failure when he actually started to fly with the
pilots who make up the airborne operation of the airline. He found
the same weaknesses on the part of the airline pilots that he had
witnessed in the Navy pilots he had flown with. Still struggling to
find perfection the young man (named Kruger in the book) tries
flying with the Naval Reserve pilots only to find, once more, that
those pilots were even worse than the two groups that he had flown
with earlier. Kruger's worst nightmare finally comes to pass when
he finds himself making some bad mistakes and decisions just like
all of the other pilots he has ever encountered. He has become a
JAP or "just another pilot" like all of the others. In spite of all
of the disappointments he encounters he still has fun and
fulfillment flying and is convinced that he could really do no job
other than flying. Flying has always been described as hours and
hours of boredom punctuated by moments of stark terror. Kruger's
experiences follow that pattern except the boring hours are
interesting also. Kruger had always considered that the most
exhilarating and exciting time you could ever experience was when
you were right on the dangerous edge of things; when you had less
than a fifty percent chance of surviving the situation you were in
and when you finally came out on top, alive and well albeit that
your heart was trying to go into tachycardia and your breathing
could only be described as panting. There is no rush better than
this. There are no punches pulled in the book. The author tells it
like it really was without cutting corners or glossing over the
facts. It is what it was. People are people and no one is perfect.
We all "have warts" no matter how good we look and usually the ones
who boast the most and are the models of perfection are the ones
who have the most faults. As the Bible says, "Judge not least ye be
judged." Kruger finds that to be very true and, as a result he
mulls each flight in his mind in an effort to try to perfect what
he has just done. There are no heroes in the book but there are a
lot of truths if you can find them.
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