VFR position reporting

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:15:03 +0000, Viperdoc wrote:

it reminds me of
my son at the age of four running around with a toy airplane making engine
noises. It may be normal for a child

Uh oh.

I do this w/my four year old. That is, I also run around with a toy
airplane making engine noises.

That's bad?

Of course, he knows what a takeoff and landing look like from "outside".
He knows about touch and goes and stop and goes. He knows how an airplane
turns (ie. the banking) and why. He knows how to flare with flair. He
knows the difference between a tail dragger and a nose dragger. He knows
the difference between airplanes with the prop outside the engine and the
prop inside the engine (I've spared him a discussion of ramjets {8^).

He's been flying with me numerous times. But always going somewhere (even
if just to a park at some other airport). Except just a couple of days
ago, he said he wanted to join me for some T&Gs.

So I opine that an adult running around with a toy airplane making engine
noises can be a fine thing indeed.

Laugh

- Andrew

I agree completely- the picture I had was of an adult male sitting in front
of a computer "talking" and making position reports with a game, and then
getting upset and asking why he couldn't make out a road on the pixelated
and smoothed out imagery of MSFS. This image is a little more troubling.

I let my now ten year old dial frequency changes on the radios, and let him
take the stick and fly for a while as well. (referring now to flying a real
airplane, and not MSFS, which he finds boring) He enjoys the participation.

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:28:31 +0000, Viperdoc wrote:

the picture I had was of an adult

That pretty much excludes the OP, if that's to whom you were referring.

male sitting in
front of a computer "talking" and making position reports with a game, and
then getting upset and asking why he couldn't make out a road on the
pixelated and smoothed out imagery of MSFS. This image is a little more
troubling.

Shrug There are a lot of people that seem to be involved in aviation
simulation. There's even this "network" of them where some play pilot
while others play controller. They actually do talk to one another.

Most of them are harmless. Some are going to become pilots; others will
remain forever pretenders. But I'm no better than a pretend cook, so who
am I to judge?

Unfortunately, one likes to post here as if he's an actual pilot.
Admittedly, that does seem disconnected from reality. But I'm sure a
qualified shrink would find my own disconnects w/o too much trouble, so...

I let my now ten year old dial frequency changes on the radios, and let
him take the stick and fly for a while as well. (referring now to
flying a real airplane, and not MSFS, which he finds boring) He enjoys
the participation.

Of course! I look forward to years of that "participation" as my own sons
age into the front seat (and then their own certificates, not that I'm
biased or anything {8^).

- Andrew

Andrew Gideon writes:

Shrug There are a lot of people that seem to be involved in aviation
simulation. There's even this "network" of them where some play pilot
while others play controller. They actually do talk to one another.

Most of them are harmless. Some are going to become pilots; others will
remain forever pretenders.

And many of them are already pilots. Simulation is dramatically
cheaper and simpler than actual flight, and most pilots can afford to
fly only a few hours per month (or year), unless they do it for a
living.

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Andrew Gideon writes:

Shrug There are a lot of people that seem to be involved in aviation
simulation. There's even this "network" of them where some play pilot
while others play controller. They actually do talk to one another.

Most of them are harmless. Some are going to become pilots; others will
remain forever pretenders.

And many of them are already pilots. Simulation is dramatically
cheaper and simpler than actual flight, and most pilots can afford to
fly only a few hours per month (or year), unless they do it for a
living.


You are right there are many real pilots that use sim and that inhabit the
flight sim newsgroups. Why don't you head back over there and leave us
alone?

Gig 601XL Builder writes:

You are right there are many real pilots that use sim and that inhabit the
flight sim newsgroups. Why don't you head back over there and leave us
alone?

Why do you waste so much time on personal attacks if you dislike me?
Why not just killfile me and be done with it? I'm refractory to
personal attacks, so they will never have any effect on me.

I'm puzzled by people who claim to hate me and yet waste hundreds or
thousands of posts on tirades against me. What's the _real_
motivation for this?

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Gig 601XL Builder writes:

You are right there are many real pilots that use sim and that inhabit
the
flight sim newsgroups. Why don't you head back over there and leave us
alone?

Why do you waste so much time on personal attacks if you dislike me?
Why not just killfile me and be done with it? I'm refractory to
personal attacks, so they will never have any effect on me.

I'm puzzled by people who claim to hate me and yet waste hundreds or
thousands of posts on tirades against me. What's the _real_
motivation for this?


I don't hate you. I don't even know you. I can't kill file all the responses
to your posts. If you would just stop arguing with everybody that answers
your questions I wouldn't have a problem. If you don't like or believe an
answer let those that do know something about the subject respond and trust
me they will if it is even a little wrong.

The way this and any forum like it should work is person A who doesn't have
information asks a question and then persons B, who knows the answer,
responds. A can then ask a follow-up question if needed. If person B was
wrong then C, D and E will chime in and get to the correct answer.

But when you ask a question then turn around and argue with damn near
everybody that answers you blow the signal to noise ratio all to hell. And
don't get me wrong. You have asked some good questions it is the way your
respond that ****es me and many others off.

Finally, there is a reason that there are thousands of newsgroups. Each
newsgroup is for a particular subject and continually remind us that you
have no interest in aviation just in flight sims.