On May 30, 5:28*am, Mxsmanic wrote:
Steve Foley writes:
I'm curious to know how you have determined what 'most private pilots know'.

Private pilots are no different from the average person when it comes to
higher mathematics, physics, and gas theory, and the average person doesn't
know much of anything about these things. *Therefore most pilots don't know
much of anything about these things, either. *Simple logic.

Thats a ridiculous statement and non logical at all. There are so
many barriers to gaining a pilots license ( as you would know) that it
would be self evident to any reasonable person that pilots ( even
private ones) must be skewed towards higher education , intelligence,
income and determination than the population as a whole ( ie your
average person). And by self evident ,I mean it should not require
any data to prove. One only has recognise several factors at play.
High intelligence , education , income and determination will will
not prevent a person from becoming a pilot, whereas a low rating in
any one of the above can certainly be a strong barrier to a person
becoming a pilot, thus the pilot population is naturally skewed and
your statement is incorrect.

Please cross statistics off your list of non trivial knowledge.
Terry