Mxsmanic wrote:
In my case, I consider going to and from the airport to be boring.

I find breathing to be quite boring, as well. May I please have a
simulator where I can pretend to carry out aerobic metabolism without
those nasty boring bits like breathing, eating, or excreting waste?


I consider
not being close to home at the end of a flight to be hugely inconvenient.

Assuming that you don't live in the middle of a large bog (as trolls are
wont to do, I'm told), there's a GA airport within walking distance of
your house. Promise.

I
consider paying $250 an hour for each hour of flight to be very stressful.

When I did my training, I was paying $80/hour, wet. One of my good
friends knew an owner and could get $39/hour, wet. Hell, I was only
paying $137/hour at ERAU, and THAT was the high price at the field.
$250/hour will get you something between a twin and a turboprop, wet.

Of course, you should learn the golden concept of pro rata. Bring a few
of your good friends along (you DO have friends, right?), and suddenly
that 250 is only $83 and change.

I
consider having to spend thousands of dollars and trudge through endless
paperwork just to be allowed to fly to be unacceptably onerous.

See the above. If putting your name and home address on a form is too
difficult, it's a wonder how you managed to get Usenet access in the
first place.

I consider a
requirement that one be in Olympic condition to get a license to be an
unnecessary burden.

I think you will find that many pilots are hardly Olympic-class
athletes. More like "healthy and generally not covered in green, scaly
warts".

I consider the inaccessibility of ownership of an
aircraft to be a major disappointment.

Something like 75% of all GA pilots either rent or have a fractional
ownership, neither of which is impossible (or even improbable) on even a
modest income.

I consider the possibility of being
killed to be an uncomfortably high risk.

You could die right now, reading this post. BAM, brain aneurysm (caused,
no doubt, by the sudden ingestion of too much logic). They'll find you
two weeks later, clutched over the keyboard, your body offering up the
most odoriferous effluence imaginable.

I consider the absence of bathrooms
on some aircraft to be a major inconvenience.

I told you to go before we left!

I'm surprised by how many people
cannot successfully take off or land in a simulator. This includes some
pilots, or at least the ones who have become dependent on physical sensations

.... or it indicates how important those sensations really are to the art
and style of flying (which you have wholeheartedly discounted, not
actually having felt them yourself). Flying is not all numbers and
formulas, do X and Y will always result, a cold calculation done in head
to achieve an unerring sum. There's a feel to this sort of thing.

Simulation only works if you take it seriously.

So does life, oddly enough.

The same type of personality that blows off
checklists in simulation because "it's not real life, anyway," may also do the
same thing in real life, with some similar dismissal as rationalization.

Or perhaps it is that some people are able to distinguish between
virtual existence and the corporeal world, and understand that their
actions in one do not affect the outcome in the other.

Also, patently false generalizations by non-qualified personnel FTL.

Reality might also be the least desirable part of the experience.

And yet reality is what the simulation (and similarly, the "serious" sim
pilot) strives for, in all dealings. So, no, if anything, simulations
should be MORE like real flying.

They enjoy reading about them and watching them, but
they don't want any reality behind it.

Reading a good murder mystery doesn't make you any more a detective than
flying a virtual 737 makes you qualified to offer edicts on procedure or
operation.

It's hard to appreciate the beauty of the Rocky Mountains when you
are hurtling towards them uncontrollably.

Which is, oddly enough, why pilots spend all that time doing that
"training" lark, so that they can keep from doing any hurtling, much
less uncontrollably so.

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Mxsmanic wrote:

There's nothing magic about being a real pilot

Not that you would know, being a feckless, cross/troll-posting,
arrogant, venomous, whingebag shut-in, without the stones to partake in
what he's "trying" to "simulate".

There, now your defeat is signatory on BOTH NG's. I couldn't possibly
have imagined the depth and breadth of your utter foolishness could
extend as far as it does here. "Surely, they're exaggerating" "He
couldn't be that stupid, could he?", I said to myself.

The rumors were true.

TheSmokingGnu