Private pilot license

BDS quotes Skylune thus...
I tried that once, and realized I could develop just enough skills to be
dangerous, but still legal.

implying it's a slam (presumably on the FAA)

I don't consider this a bad thing. It is the nature of freedom. It
ipmlies judgement on the part of the pilot (or anyone else governed)
that the rules permit unsafe actions on occasion, leaving it to the
governed to excercise judgement. I much prefer it this way to the
alternative of having perfectly safe operations proscribed because
somebody couldn't handle it.

CAUTION: SILICA GEL... DO NOT EAT!!
(yep, just what I expected with my digital camera - a snack!)

Jose
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"Jose" wrote
BDS quotes Skylune thus...
I tried that once, and realized I could develop just enough skills to
be
dangerous, but still legal.

implying it's a slam (presumably on the FAA)

Well, since the guy who wrote it eventually admitted it was, I guess I was
right on, eh? Seems obvious if you follow what preceded that sentence -
what would be the point of that "but still legal" ending otherwise?

I don't consider this a bad thing. It is the nature of freedom.

I don't think you will find a pilot who thinks otherwise, but nobody was
talking about whether it was good or bad, only about whether someone was
taking yet another opportunity to make a negative comment about something
relating to GA in order to further a personal agenda.

BDS

Well, since the guy who wrote it eventually admitted it was, I guess I was
right on, eh?

Well, sorta. He didn't "admit it was" (or was intended to), he admitted
it could be taken thus. A little different. It casts shade on the
-other- statements he makes (which are slams) but I would not consider
it a slam in itself. In fact, as I point out, I consider it a positive
comment on the FAA.

nobody was
talking about whether it was good or bad, only about whether someone was
taking yet another opportunity to make a negative comment

Uh... "negative comment" implies a judgement about good or bad.

Jose
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"Jose" wrote

Well, sorta. He didn't "admit it was" (or was intended to), he admitted
it could be taken thus. A little different. It casts shade on the
-other- statements he makes (which are slams) but I would not consider
it a slam in itself. In fact, as I point out, I consider it a positive
comment on the FAA.

Someone says something is dangerous, but legal, and you take that as a
positive comment - er, OK then. My guess is that you would be alone in that
interpretation.

BDS

Someone says something is dangerous, but legal, and you take that as a
positive comment - er, OK then. My guess is that you would be alone in that
interpretation.

I don't think I'm alone. You want the government to come up with a list
of all the dangerous things they think people can do and make them
illegal? That's not the kind of world I want to live in.

Jose
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Money: what you need when you run out of brains.
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"Jose" wrote

Someone says something is dangerous, but legal, and you take that as a
positive comment - er, OK then. My guess is that you would be alone in
that
interpretation.

I don't think I'm alone. You want the government to come up with a list
of all the dangerous things they think people can do and make them
illegal? That's not the kind of world I want to live in.

Good grief - you win, I give up.

BDS

by "BDS" doesitreallymatter@[EMAIL PROTECTED] Feb 12, 2006 at 01:49
PM


"Jose" teacherjh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote

Well, sorta. He didn't "admit it was" (or was intended to), he
admitted
it could be taken thus. A little different. It casts shade on the
-other- statements he makes (which are slams) but I would not consider
it a slam in itself. In fact, as I point out, I consider it a positive
comment on the FAA.

Someone says something is dangerous, but legal, and you take that as a
positive comment - er, OK then. My guess is that you would be alone in
that
interpretation.

BDS

Hunting is dangerous, but legal. Ask Dick Cheney.

"Skylune" wrote in message
lkaboutaviation.com...
Hunting is dangerous, but legal. Ask Dick Cheney.

Big ****in' Deal... He shot a *lawyer*... They're considered a pest and as
such, there's no explicit season for 'em, you can shoot 'em year-round...

by "Grumman-581" Feb 13, 2006 at
08:11 PM


"Skylune" wrote in message
lkaboutaviation.com...
Hunting is dangerous, but legal. Ask Dick Cheney.

Big ****in' Deal... He shot a *lawyer*... They're considered a pest and
as
such, there's no explicit season for 'em, you can shoot 'em
year-round...

Uh, ok... does that include the AOPA legal staff?

BTW, do you have any of those cool "Anytime Baby" stickers that Grumman
used to make? The ones with the grinning tomcat? I used to have some
(grew up with many Grumman employees that worked in Bethpage and
Calverton), but I can't find where i left 'em.