Fear

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 15:52:50 -0500, "Jim Macklin"
wrote:

I am curious why I was feeling fear givin all the above
factors. Does
| this mean I am simply not cut out for flying?

You can know everything there is to know about something. Experience
is the real teacher, especially in a hands on hobby like flying. As
good as they are, simulators don't do much for helping get used to the
sense of flying.

Give it a few hours. I think you'll get used to it.

z

I thanks you all for the response. I will admit though that 50 degrees
may be a bit of an exageration... although it seemed more like 90
degrees at the time.

When you snip, but leave my name, you really should leave
something I wrote, Jim Macklin wrote nothing on the page
below.



--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

"zatatime" wrote in message
...
| On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 15:52:50 -0500, "Jim Macklin"
| wrote:
|
| I am curious why I was feeling fear givin all the above
| factors. Does
| | this mean I am simply not cut out for flying?
|
| You can know everything there is to know about something.
Experience
| is the real teacher, especially in a hands on hobby like
flying. As
| good as they are, simulators don't do much for helping get
used to the
| sense of flying.
|
| Give it a few hours. I think you'll get used to it.
|
| z

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:33:13 -0500, "Jim Macklin"
wrote:

When you snip, but leave my name, you really should leave
something I wrote, Jim Macklin wrote nothing on the page
below.


This only happen because you top posted. Bottom posting would prevent
this from happening.

z

Then snip my name, I don't intend to change to bottom
feeding, er, posting.



"zatatime" wrote in message
...
| On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:33:13 -0500, "Jim Macklin"
| wrote:
|
| When you snip, but leave my name, you really should leave
| something I wrote, Jim Macklin wrote nothing on the page
| below.
|
|
| This only happen because you top posted. Bottom posting
would prevent
| this from happening.
|
| z

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:56:59 -0500, "Jim Macklin"
wrote in
o7dxg.84060$ZW3.6509@dukeread04::

I don't intend to change to bottom feeding, er, posting.


So then a mixture of top and bottom posted follow up articles are
archived on GoogleGroups causing Usenet researchers no end of
difficulty in parsing the message thread.

Bottom posting is chronological; later comments occur after earlier
comments.

Have we become so lazy, that we would rather destroy the coherence of
the message archive rather than spin the wheel on our mice?

/rant mode

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:56:59 -0500, "Jim Macklin"
wrote:

Then snip my name, I don't intend to change to bottom
feeding, er, posting.


Why should I do more work because you chose to top post? Calling it
bottom feeding is laughable since it is actually the proper way to
post.

z

All you have to do is snip two more lines from the dozens or
hundreds.


"zatatime" wrote in message
...
| On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:56:59 -0500, "Jim Macklin"
| wrote:
|
| Then snip my name, I don't intend to change to bottom
| feeding, er, posting.
|
|
| Why should I do more work because you chose to top post?
Calling it
| bottom feeding is laughable since it is actually the
proper way to
| post.
|
| z

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 03:00:58 -0500, "Jim Macklin"
wrote:

All you have to do is snip two more lines from the dozens or
hundreds.


"zatatime" wrote in message
.. .
| On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:56:59 -0500, "Jim Macklin"
| wrote:
|
| Then snip my name, I don't intend to change to bottom
| feeding, er, posting.
|
|
| Why should I do more work because you chose to top post?
Calling it
| bottom feeding is laughable since it is actually the
proper way to
| post.
|
| z


That's more work.

z

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:14:49 -0400, zatatime wrote in
::

especially in a hands on hobby like flying.

When I see someone refer to GA flying as a hobby, it always makes me
cringe. To me, it means that the flight training of the pilot who
wrote it failed to truly ready the airman for assuming the command
role in flight as set forth in the federal regulations.

While there is usually great emphasis on learning the technical arcana
of flying, navigating, and metrology, it would appear that the
training failed to cause the airman to fully appreciate the
responsibility a Pilot In Command assumes for the lives of those over
whom he flies and his passengers.

If the flight student's mental outlook isn't fundamentally changed as
a result of his flight training, he probably doesn't really appreciate
the depth of that responsibility. And imagine how the layman feels
when he thinks hobby-pilots are noisily traversing the "sovereign"
airspace overhead, rather than a federally certified airman who
solemnly accepts his true command responsibility for the right to
exorcize the authority granted him by his airmans certificate.

If we refer to it as recreational flying, rather than a hobby, perhaps
the lay readers of this international forum will see that we airmen
take our responsibilities more seriously than mere hobbyists.