On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:12:33 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

Funny how kids or maybe any non-pilot interprets the way we talk on the
radio.

Pilots in general don't seem to suffer fools gladly. This can be
interpreted as "rude."

And legitimately. Though I realize that just responding that way may
seem to imply foolhardiness. But I'll risk it. Interpretations can
vary.


In groups of our own kind, pilots are pretty gregarious, often waxing
eloquent (for probably too long!) about pattern entries and near misses.
Get us out of our groups, however, and we may appear to be sullen and surly,
speaking only when spoken to and often in clipped tones.

Why be so sullen and surly? The answer isn't what you gave below.
It's because you know there is a real world, and it is where you are
at. It is not where you want to be, since it does not exist as such
in the sky -- though the effort made to get, and stay, there would
force the making of a new and different world, but for only the pilot.
The passenger is not much of a participant, so you praise yourself
even the more. He doesn't, however; at least not so much. Because he
doesn't really need to.

Honestly, the better perspective of the 'real world' is not gained
from being 'on top' if it -- though the talent required to get there
is certainly worth something, to somebody. So flyers are isolated by
circumstances chosen, and it is not the fault of those ground-bound.


It's probably cuz we're thinking about how we could be flying, instead of
standing around yacking...

;-)