"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:3gULe.251379$x96.181434@attbi_s72...

Most of our guests at the hotel are not pilots. It's simply a matter of
numbers -- there are a LOT more non-pilots than there are pilots, and they
need hotel rooms, too. Many of our guests are "wannabes" or aviation
enthusiasts, however. Although we have found many people who are afraid
of flying, we have yet to meet someone who doesn't like airplanes -- and
those people are our "bread & butter."

An amazing number of guests tell me that they have taken flight lessons,
but quit flying for one reason or another. I have never been able to
understand this phenomenon, since --



I worked for a guy who took a few lessons and then quit. He was proud to
tell everyone how easy it was to fly and also once you do the take and
landing the rest is pretty boring. He liked saying this in front of me
and another pilot. I think it made him feel superior. It was probably
masking a fear he had or perhaps we was truly really bored with flying.

I think another reason that people give it up is that after the first
few lessons it looks like all you are doing is the same thing over and
over without ever seemingly making any progress. The real reason a lot
of people fly is to see stuff from the air and here they are trapped
doing stalls, slow flight, engine out, etc. I wonder if it might be more
useful that the dual XC be moved earlier in the syllabuss to keep people
interested.

Scott

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Scott F. Migaldi
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