Unusual Distractions

Tina writes:

For what it's worth, I've been known to distract my husband. Why, once
or twice he actually engaged the autopilot. (The safety minded among
you will be happy to know it was in IMC, there was no opportunity to
be looking for other traffic.)

Traffic doesn't go away just because you cannot see it. IMC is a bad time to
be distracted.

In this case IMC equals flying in the clouds, Mx. There is nothing to
see outside.

I noted in one of your posts while flying the simulator you had a
beautiful woman by your side, and she was not a distraction. What
power of concentration you must have. I would feel slighted if my
husband kept his interest on a computer game if I was trying to
distract him. Maybe it's that he is being very kind, but he allows
himself to be distracted easily in those circumstances. You might find
from a relationship standpoint you'd do better if you allowed such
distractions from time to time.


The last part of that paragraph can be considered professional
advice.

Tina the shrink









On Jul 11, 10:15 am, Mxsmanic wrote:
Tina writes:
For what it's worth, I've been known to distract my husband. Why, once
or twice he actually engaged the autopilot. (The safety minded among
you will be happy to know it was in IMC, there was no opportunity to
be looking for other traffic.)

Traffic doesn't go away just because you cannot see it. IMC is a bad time to
be distracted.

Tina writes:

In this case IMC equals flying in the clouds, Mx. There is nothing to
see outside.

But the clouds may hide other aircraft. You need to be on the radio to
maintain separation with ATC, not dealing with cockpit distractions.

I noted in one of your posts while flying the simulator you had a
beautiful woman by your side, and she was not a distraction.

Yes.

What power of concentration you must have.

Not at all. I'm simply not a buck deer in rut, and my behavior is controlled
by my brain, not my hormones.

I would feel slighted if my husband kept his interest on a computer
game if I was trying to distract him.

I am not your husband.

Maybe it's that he is being very kind, but he allows
himself to be distracted easily in those circumstances.

The answer to that might displease you. Men know how to fake things, too.

You might find
from a relationship standpoint you'd do better if you allowed such
distractions from time to time.

I'm not interested in a relationship, I'm interested in aviation.

Ha!

Someone offered the observation 'clueless'.

There are more technical terms (see the DSM) but that fits nicely.



On Jul 11, 10:36 am, Mxsmanic wrote:
Tina writes:
In this case IMC equals flying in the clouds, Mx. There is nothing to
see outside.

But the clouds may hide other aircraft. You need to be on the radio to
maintain separation with ATC, not dealing with cockpit distractions.

I noted in one of your posts while flying the simulator you had a
beautiful woman by your side, and she was not a distraction.

Yes.

What power of concentration you must have.

Not at all. I'm simply not a buck deer in rut, and my behavior is controlled
by my brain, not my hormones.

I would feel slighted if my husband kept his interest on a computer
game if I was trying to distract him.

I am not your husband.

Maybe it's that he is being very kind, but he allows
himself to be distracted easily in those circumstances.

The answer to that might displease you. Men know how to fake things, too.

You might find
from a relationship standpoint you'd do better if you allowed such
distractions from time to time.

I'm not interested in a relationship, I'm interested in aviation.

On Jul 11, 10:38 am, Tina wrote:
Ha!

Someone offered the observation 'clueless'.

There are more technical terms (see the DSM) but that fits nicely.

On Jul 11, 10:36 am, Mxsmanic wrote:



Tina writes:
In this case IMC equals flying in the clouds, Mx. There is nothing to
see outside.

But the clouds may hide other aircraft. You need to be on the radio to
maintain separation with ATC, not dealing with cockpit distractions.

I noted in one of your posts while flying the simulator you had a
beautiful woman by your side, and she was not a distraction.

Yes.

What power of concentration you must have.

Not at all. I'm simply not a buck deer in rut, and my behavior is controlled
by my brain, not my hormones.

I would feel slighted if my husband kept his interest on a computer
game if I was trying to distract him.

I am not your husband.

Maybe it's that he is being very kind, but he allows
himself to be distracted easily in those circumstances.

The answer to that might displease you. Men know how to fake things, too.

You might find
from a relationship standpoint you'd do better if you allowed such
distractions from time to time.

I'm not interested in a relationship, I'm interested in aviation.-

He can have the best of both worlds. Use the FMC to guide the plane
under VFR (so he's not distracted by that pesky simulated ATC voice),
on a long flight between say....LGA and LAX. Then he has a nice four
hours or so to be "distracted."

Of course, the "beautiful woman" that is his distraction is probably a
Playboy magazine anyway g

BTW: MY significant other gets royally PO'd if I am not significantly
distracted enough when I am WORKING at home, let alone playing a
stupid flight simulator.

Doug Semler writes:

He can have the best of both worlds. Use the FMC to guide the plane
under VFR (so he's not distracted by that pesky simulated ATC voice) ...

There's no FMC in the Baron, and I normally don't fly VFR in the big iron.

BTW: MY significant other gets royally PO'd if I am not significantly
distracted enough when I am WORKING at home, let alone playing a
stupid flight simulator.

If you actually fly that way, perhaps your epitaph could say "He was
distracted."

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
...

snip I normally don't fly snip.

Nuff said

On Jul 11, 2:06 pm, Mxsmanic wrote:
Doug Semler writes:
He can have the best of both worlds. Use the FMC to guide the plane
under VFR (so he's not distracted by that pesky simulated ATC voice) ...

There's no FMC in the Baron, and I normally don't fly VFR in the big iron.

What do I care? Read-and-parse. English 1. I said to use the FMC
(ok. in a plane that has one, *obviously*) to guide under VFR (hell,
guide it under IFR for all I care, unless you are worried about a
simulated FSDO appearing on your doorstep) for a long flight (.
Imagine the distractor is a stewardess and you want to join the
simulated mile high club (hmmmmm...interesting fantasy in there
somewhere...). (obvious ad hominem) However, in your case you don't
even need to use the FMC or have a long flight; you'd be finished with
any distraction before tower handed you off to departure after
takeoff.


BTW: MY significant other gets royally PO'd if I am not significantly
distracted enough when I am WORKING at home, let alone playing a
stupid flight simulator.

If you actually fly that way, perhaps your epitaph could say "He was
distracted."

I never said anything about distractions while flying. I was implying
that a [significant other/boyfriend/girlfriend/hell-it-could-be-a-goat-
for-all-I-know] is going to get ****ed off at you if you choose a
computer over the distraction; *regardless* of what you are doing on
the computer at the time of the distraction.

Mxsmanic wrote in
:

Doug Semler writes:

He can have the best of both worlds. Use the FMC to guide the plane
under VFR (so he's not distracted by that pesky simulated ATC voice)
...

There's no FMC in the Baron, and I normally don't fly VFR in the big
iron.



Big Iron?

Bwawhahwhahwhah1



You don't fly anything ever, fjukktard#



BTW: MY significant other gets royally PO'd if I am not significantly
distracted enough when I am WORKING at home, let alone playing a
stupid flight simulator.

If you actually fly that way, perhaps your epitaph could say "He was
distracted."


All pilots get distracted, fjukkwit.


Name of the game is to not allow it to kill you.


Real pilots know **** like that, ya see.



Bertie

On Jul 11, 1:51 pm, Doug Semler wrote:
On Jul 11, 10:38 am, Tina wrote:

You might find
from a relationship standpoint you'd do better if you allowed such
distractions from time to time.

Wouldn't that require giving up control from time to time?

I'm not interested in a relationship, I'm interested in aviation.-

Someday evidence of either may be presented.

He can have the best of both worlds. Use the FMC to guide the plane
under VFR (so he's not distracted by that pesky simulated ATC voice),
on a long flight between say....LGA and LAX. Then he has a nice four
hours or so to be "distracted."

Of course, the "beautiful woman" that is his distraction is probably a
Playboy magazine anyway g

Photoshop is his John g