If there were 25 million active GA pilots...

In rec.aviation.owning Scott Lowrey wrote:
: Compare driving a car to piloting a boat: still two dimensional but much
: more difficult in terms of navigation when the boat is on open water away
: from land.

I would argue that driving is effectively a 1-dimensional
endeavor. Once a road is chosen, it's followed and navigation isn't
necessary. Boating is 2-dimensional, with the additional problems of
weather, etc as you mentioned.

-Cory


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"Dan Luke" c172rgATbellsouthDOTnet wrote in message ...
...in the USA instead of 400,000 or so:

There would be GA airports *everywhere*. They would be like beehives on the
day before Thanksgiving.

I appreciate the idea, I like the post. But, I'm curious about the
above idiom. Why beehives? Why Thanksgiving? grin

-Malcolm

"Malcolm Teas" wrote:
I appreciate the idea, I like the post. But, I'm curious about the
above idiom. Why beehives?

If you get a chance, observe arrivals and departures at a beehive
sometime.

Why Thanksgiving? grin

Hee-hee! Well, uh...bees gotta go see mom too?
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

Dan Luke wrote:

...in the USA instead of 400,000 or so:

Anyone who thinks that we would have 25 million active pilots for longer than a
few days should listen to the New Jersey traffic reports any weekday morning.

George Patterson
To a pilot, altitude is like money - it is possible that having too much
could prove embarassing, but having too little is always fatal.

snicker Good one.

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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Dan Luke wrote:

...in the USA instead of 400,000 or so:

Anyone who thinks that we would have 25 million active pilots for longer
than a
few days should listen to the New Jersey traffic reports any weekday
morning.

George Patterson
To a pilot, altitude is like money - it is possible that having too
much
could prove embarassing, but having too little is always fatal.