The Impossibility of Flying Heavy Aircraft Without Training

On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 10:55:59 -0800, fredfighter wrote:

Now of course weight is a convenient fiction.

Can I allocate excess fat that same definition?

There is really no such
thing as gravitational force, what we model as a force acting at a
distance is in reality the distortion of spacetime in the presence of
mass. Perhaps other forces are similarly ficticious.

I hope not the Air Force.

So you want to bring general and special relativity into
the frey `eh? Newton ain't good enough for you, huh? Ok.

Gimme your Lorentz transformations for -Mach 1 to +Mach 1
at the transition point. I wanna see how time and gravity
are related to mass transactions. The speed of sound must
be a nodal harmonic of the speed of light. I wanna see it
too. Gimme gimme...


But how sure can we be that mass and velocity are any less ficticious
than force?

Gravity seems to work to it's own advantage so it's the
ultimate taxing authority in the universe. That really sucks.