Why airplanes fly

Michael Ash wrote in
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In rec.aviation.student Jay Honeck wrote:
You really still have nice things to say about him, even as the
smell lingers?

I prefer to look at MX differently.

Almost every Movie Night, we have a mildly retarded young man and his
"keeper" show up. (For those who don't know, we show an aviation
movie every Tuesday night, at our aviation themed hotel.) The event
is open to the public, and free -- and the kid loves airplanes, so he
comes.

All of the real pilots have made him feel welcome, even though he
occasionally blurts out something stupid or inappropriate. They
recognize that he's harmless, happens to love aviation, and --
although he's mildly annoying -- we all slap him on the back when he
arrives.

That's MX.

The three key attributes you see in your movie night fellow are that
he loves aviation, he has a low IQ, and all of the real pilots make
him feel welcome. All three are the exact opposite of MX, so your
statement that this is MX is really odd.

The guy is obviously very smart in many ways. He's missing wisdom, in
the sense that he vastly underestimates the value of experience and
the knowledge of other, but for straight logical IQ-style intelligence
he's obviously pretty far up there.

Despite his constant simming and posting about aviation, he does not
love aviation. You might disagree with me, but just try offering him a
flight. I submit that if you offer a free flight to someone and he
turns it down for reasons other than medical or time, he does not love
aviation. Maybe he loves to look at it, or talk about it, but not the
thing itself.

And, of course, his attitude has resulted in scorn from most of the
real pilots here.

Take your movie night fellow, replace him with a smart guy who thinks
he's better than everyone else in the room but is afraid to actually
get in any of their airplanes, who casually insults the people there,
who talks about his MSFS flying as if it were real, and who never,
ever backs down from an argument even when he's obviously out of his
depth, and see how things work out for him then.

Jay's just looking for friends..



Bertie