I give up, after many, many years!

On May 30, 5:28*am, Mxsmanic wrote:
Steve Foley writes:
I'm curious to know how you have determined what 'most private pilots know'.

Private pilots are no different from the average person when it comes to
higher mathematics, physics, and gas theory, and the average person doesn't
know much of anything about these things. *Therefore most pilots don't know
much of anything about these things, either. *Simple logic.

Thats a ridiculous statement and non logical at all. There are so
many barriers to gaining a pilots license ( as you would know) that it
would be self evident to any reasonable person that pilots ( even
private ones) must be skewed towards higher education , intelligence,
income and determination than the population as a whole ( ie your
average person). And by self evident ,I mean it should not require
any data to prove. One only has recognise several factors at play.
High intelligence , education , income and determination will will
not prevent a person from becoming a pilot, whereas a low rating in
any one of the above can certainly be a strong barrier to a person
becoming a pilot, thus the pilot population is naturally skewed and
your statement is incorrect.

Please cross statistics off your list of non trivial knowledge.
Terry

terry writes:

Thats a ridiculous statement and non logical at all. There are so
many barriers to gaining a pilots license ( as you would know) that it
would be self evident to any reasonable person that pilots ( even
private ones) must be skewed towards higher education , intelligence,
income and determination than the population as a whole ( ie your
average person).

That's wishful thinking. While there is surely some bias in favor of higher
intelligence, it's overly optimistic to assume that this bias is significant,
even in airline pilots.

Anyone can learn to fly an aircraft by rote.

Mxsmanic wrote in
:

Steve Foley writes:

I'm curious to know how you have determined what 'most private pilots
know'.

Private pilots are no different from the average person when it comes
to higher mathematics, physics, and gas theory, and the average person
doesn't know much of anything about these things. Therefore most
pilots don't know much of anything about these things, either. Simple
logic.

I suspect you don't even know a significant sample.

Not necessary. See above.

And you, Anthony, don't know anything about everything. This puts you way,
way below the knowledge level of the average person. In fact, it puts you
way, way below the knowledge level of the average moron.

Mxsmanic wrote in
:

Kevin Horner writes:

Are you the only person on the planet who knows calculus,
Newtonian physics and the theory of gases?

No, but that's far more than most private pilots know.


They can fly a real airplane. You can't.