On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 18:13:48 -0600, "VideoGuy" gkasten at brick dot
net wrote:


"Badwater Bill" wrote in message
.. .

I'll bet we could take a poll here (if it could be done honestly) and
you'd find that 1% are professional pilots, 5% fly regularly and maybe
another 5% are students or have taken a lesson at some time. The rest
are just hanger's oners, wantabes. Now, that ain't all bad. There
are some good folks who read this stuff who just are facinated by
airplanes. But, understand what you are dealing with.

BWB

Am we to conclude from your above snipped comments that you feel those who
are not building, or owning or piloting really shouldn't be here?

You say, "The rest are just hanger's oners, wantabes. Now, that ain't all
bad.."

What part IS bad about those of us, who for whatever reason, have yet to
achieve our goals of building, or owning, or piloting still reading and
posting a question or comment? Is this group so exclusive that the
uninitiated are unwelcome?

In my case, I've waited 35 years to be in a position to start my lessons.
This fact has not diminished my interest in aviation related NGs. Should
all of us "wantabes" feel obligated to remain on the outside? Maybe you'd
prefer a NG with certificate numbers as the requirement to log in!

If I sound somewhat offended by your remarks, you are reading me correctly.

Gary (thinking of starting the rec.aviation.wantabe group) Kasten

I offend everybody, not just you. Don't feel unique. I don't express
myself well as I get older. I have little time for novices in any
field where I've spent a lifetime becoming an expert. But, that's
just me. I'm not saying that I'm right. I just have a zero
tolerances level for people who don't know how to fly, don't know how
to build, don't know what they want.

But then I was always lucky. I started flying in 1957 because I knew
I was destined to do so. I knew I wanted to be a physicist when I was
in the 7th grade. In the Universities I never could understand why
there were people running around wasting lots of mommy and daddy's
money who knew nothing about what they wanted to become or what they
wanted out of life. It was alien to me.

As a young CFI 35 years ago I enjoyed teaching people what an aileron
is and what it does. I just got tired somewhere along the way with
the people who wouldn't try to put forth their best efforts on their
own to learn and become the best that they could be.

I don't accept your excuse for waiting 35 years to do something you
wanted to do all of your life. I feel sorry for you. I feel that you
have been a lost soul for some reason. I would have killed to fly. I
had no choice. I had no choice in becoming a nuclear physicist
either. I was born knowing how to factor a quadratic equation.

So, I was luckier than most, I'm sorry. I guess it was always easier
for me since I knew EXACTLY what I wanted out of life. To this day I
have no time because I want so much, and I'm getting old. Now that
****es me off. But, I oil paint each day. I fly my helicopter, I fly
my airplanes, I fly my RC airplanes and helicopters as much as I can.
I fly my Snobird gyroplane. I go snow skiing as much as I can. I
have a Kawasaki Ninja ZX-11 that goes 200 mph and a new 2004 Corvette
that I drive like I just stole them...dirtbikes, ATV's a
snowmobiles... The list makes me nauseous. I can't possibly even get
to it all.

There is no rest for the unholy.

I don't even have time to come in here and post much anymore which I
like to do just to torque off all the anonymous cowards.

But I am burned out on telling people what an aileron is and how it
works. I've done that a lot in my life. Maybe the old coots like me
should forever leave this ng and let you people who don't fly and
don't build have it. Then you won't be insulted when we cringe when a
mature adult askes a question that we first answered in the 1950's.

BWB