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RST Engineering wrote:
I can count the number of pilots I know on my appendages without taking
off
my pants. I know THOUSANDS of airplane drivers, though.

Jim
Maybe. But tell me, where do you draw the line between them?

I guess it's paraphrasing the Supreme Court justice to say I can't define
it, but I know it when I see it.


And who
appointed you to be the one to do so?

Last I looked, we each appoint ourselves to make judgement calls like this.
I've never met you, never flown with you, and know nothing about you.
THerefore you don't fit either category, do you? I freely admit that the
majority of my students wind up as airplane drivers, though one or perhaps
two of them turned out to be pilots.

And please, keep your pants on, even though we cannot see you.

Chairs in your house have real straight legs on them, don't they? {;-)


Jim


A great deal of what either makes a "driver" or a "pilot" depends
heavily on the initial CFI experience. I've had pilots come through my
aerobatic program with 20K hours who couldn't fly their way out of a
paper bag. Conversely, I've had comparatively low time pilots trained by
extremely good instructors who could fly the airplane while blowing up
the paper bag. Almost everything in flying is relative to that initial
training curve.

--
Dudley Henriques