Common instruments on small aircraft

Judah writes:

How do you maintain separation from other ground-craft? GCT?

I'm ugly, which serves as my TCAS.

Why do you think that?

Because all the evidence points to it.

Why would people fly if it did not provide some benefit?

Because they enjoy flying.

Why do people ride horses? It certainly isn't for transportation.

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Mxsmanic wrote:
Judah writes:

But what if the weather is bad or there is low visibility?

I walk IFR.

Just because it doesn't present value for you doesn't mean it has no value.
Evidence would suggest that GA presents value to some number of people in the
world, because there are many people, both pilots and otherwise, that use
General Aviation as a form of transportation. If there is no value in it,
they wouldn't use it.

I think it more likely that many private pilots use the pretext of
transportation as an excuse to fly. Not that there's any harm in
that, but they should just admit it and not try to pretend that
aircraft are actually practical transportation for general purposes.

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Self deception is an integral part of the GA game. They have an
organization, the AOPA, that puts out complete propaganda about the
utility of GA for travel, as well as how simple it is to fly. Look at
the GA Serving America Website. It is replete with nonsense about the
utility of VFR GA for transportation. It really is quite humourous.

Rather than focusing on improving pilots' skills (though they devote
much of their efforts to this), the AOPA strays into political matters
such as whether taxpayers should keep providing subsidies to
recreational pilots. It also successfully lobbies the FAA (which it
has huge influence over) to create new categories of licenses, the
weakest of which (Sport Pilot) requires NO MEDICAL WHATSOEVER. It
constantly tries to get medical rules loosened, so that some geezer on
his last gasp still has the legal right to fly 1000 feet over private
properties. In short, it is a very nefarious special interest lobby
that has contempt for all but its pilot members, who it refers to as
the "elite". Reading a few entries on the NTSB GA crash website puts
the notion of private pilots being elite to rest. As you know, there
are quite a few boobs flying around. Some of the pilots themselves
admit to this.

It also successfully lobbies the FAA (which it
has huge influence over) to create new categories of licenses, the
weakest of which (Sport Pilot) requires NO MEDICAL WHATSOEVER. It
constantly tries to get medical rules loosened, so that some geezer on
his last gasp still has the legal right to fly 1000 feet over private
properties.

Do you realize that it takes NO MEDICAL WHATSOEVER for that same geezer
to drive a fully laden SUV down the highway at 55 mph, only ten or
fifteen feet away from ONRUSHING traffic?

Medicals for all drivers! Damn the AAA!

Jose
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Skylune writes:

Self deception is an integral part of the GA game. They have an
organization, the AOPA, that puts out complete propaganda about the
utility of GA for travel, as well as how simple it is to fly. Look at
the GA Serving America Website. It is replete with nonsense about the
utility of VFR GA for transportation. It really is quite humourous.

If GA were practical for transportation, it would be a lot more
widespread. If it were as practical as cars, it would be as common as
cars. The fact that is actually extremely rare implies that GA is
only useful to people who like to fly for the sake of flying, in most
cases.

Rather than focusing on improving pilots' skills (though they devote
much of their efforts to this), the AOPA strays into political matters
such as whether taxpayers should keep providing subsidies to
recreational pilots.

How do taxpayers subsidize recreational pilots?

It also successfully lobbies the FAA (which it
has huge influence over) to create new categories of licenses, the
weakest of which (Sport Pilot) requires NO MEDICAL WHATSOEVER.

A driver's license doesn't require much of a medical, either. Why is
that a problem?

It constantly tries to get medical rules loosened, so that some geezer on
his last gasp still has the legal right to fly 1000 feet over private
properties.

He already has the right to drive past them or even through them in a
car. Why should flying be different?

Besides, a skilled old geezer is a lot safer than a careless or
incompetent young athlete.

In short, it is a very nefarious special interest lobby
that has contempt for all but its pilot members, who it refers to as
the "elite". Reading a few entries on the NTSB GA crash website puts
the notion of private pilots being elite to rest. As you know, there
are quite a few boobs flying around. Some of the pilots themselves
admit to this.

Yes. GA is its own worst enemy.

What puzzles me is how so many manifestly incompetent and stupid
people can still get private pilot's licenses. There are way more
idiots flying than I would expect, given the difficulty of obtaining a
license.

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Skylune,

the
weakest of which (Sport Pilot) requires NO MEDICAL WHATSOEVER.


You mean, just like DRIVING? The horrors...

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