On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:41:10 -0400, "Dudley Henriques"
wrote:

Rule 1 for feeling good about yourself in this life is simply this;
Don't ever allow someone else's problem to become your problem.
Dudley Henriques

To that I can only say...Yup!

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My daughters classmates met someone outside of
school that knows me and when they got to talking
the kid mentioned that I was a pilot for an airline and
that person (an adult) corrected them and told them
that I was not a real pilot that I only fly TOY planes.


Sounds like jealously or lack of knowledge to me.

I now have something like 1400 plus hours. I originally started to fly
in 1963, but had to take a break. Over all these years I've never had
an urge to fly for a commercial airline. I do like aerobatics and
would love to fly some of the stuff Dudley has flown.

This is one of thoes areas where size really doesn't matter. If you
fly a 747 for fun it must by definition be a toy. :-))

OTOH regruadless of the size of the toy it takes a real pilot to fly
it.! Some of those toys are much more demanding to fly than the big
airliners.

Which reminds me. I wonder if that person would consider the guys
flying for "Air America" back in the 60's and 70's as not real pilots
flying toys.
Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com