Did I miss the Era of GA?

Mxsmanic wrote:
Tim writes:


It is no more expensive that other hobbies or activities.


The number of other hobbies and activities that are orders of magnitude less
expensive than flying is too great to allow them all to be enumerated here.


It takes about 70 hours of flight training to get a private pilot certificate.


It takes a pencil and a piece of charcoal to practice art as a hobby.


I see no correlation between simulation and real flying.


I see no correlation between flying tin cans and flying any other type of
aircraft. But perhaps we're both wrong.


Perhaps the reluctance of real pilots to welcome
you has little to do with your chosen way to spend time (simming/gaming)
than it is your clear and often rudely stated discussions about how GA
is useless and the pilots of GA aircraft are stupid, ignorant, filthy
rich, macho/testosterone filled babies with huge egos.


Their reluctance is directly connected to their emotions. Unfortunately, some
of those emotions are indeed correlated with stupidity, ignorance, and
testosterone, although the correlation is not terribly high.


Most pilots I have met do not match the view you have of them.


Most of those pilots don't start threads five times a week discussing me here
in this newsgroup.



Why do you bother to post to this newsgroup if you already know more
than GA pilots and don't ever wish to fly in a real plane? This is
clearly a GA newsgroup. You are wasting your time on here.

You are a topic of discussion because you seem to be unique in the
readership by holding yourself out as someone who knows more than others
but has not ever take a GA flight and who has no intention of ever doing
so. Your "knowledge" of flying is all theoretical and so narrowly
focused. You cannot ever seem to acknowledge that others have different
opinions and actually can fly small airplane and it is practical for
them. You also insult so many people by insisting that plane ownership
and GA is for the spoiled rich and those with more money than brains.
That is not the case, but you cling to the notion that flying is the
most expensive pastime around. You are dead wrong. Glider flying is
one clear example. There are many glider clubs in the US that use
volunteers for tows and instruction. The cost of getting a pilot
certificate in that case is below $2000. Many people do it.

Never once have I seen you concede that you were/are wrong on any point.
Do you purposely try to frustrate people? I think so. I think you
enjoy trying to control people's emotions because you clearly have too
much time on your hands and no "real" life to speak of - your life is
lived from your chair in front of your computer.