GA is priceless

mile high club...even a simulated member ?
Ha! Yet another use for our "Kiwi" flight simulator in the hotel!

A "profit center", no doubt.

Jose
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Jay Honeck writes:

One really nice thing about Google Groups is that it hides email
addresses that are in the text of any message. Makes it impossible for
the Spambots to get them.

The spambots don't use Google Groups.

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"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Ken Chaddock writes:

What, don't want to become a member of the mile high club...even a
simulated member ?

No, I don't. I'm interested in aviation, not sex.

I thought you were interested in simulation, not aviation.


Fifteen hours and counting......

Real spambots don't harvest addresses using Google Groups. G

True enough. The point being that if ALL newsreader software truncated
in-line email addresses like Google Groups, perhaps the spammers would
start to wither...
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

At the other end of the scale is general aviation. Aviation is a
horrendously complex form of transportation--the most complex around,

I find this quite funny. You have fallen for it, hook, line and
sinker.

The "complexity" of GA is a myth that has been foisted upon the general
public by the "big-watch" pilots who simply LOVE to flaunt how cool
they are under pressure. John Wayne movies in the '50s and '60s cast
the mold for this pilot stereotype (which was effectively skewered in
the "Airplane" movies, BTW), and pilots have done little to counter
this stereotype ever since.

It's also, BTW, one of the major reasons GA is floundering. Too many
people think they're not "good enough" to be a pilot.

Why? Quite frankly, too many of us love to portray the steely-eyed
God-pilot, laughing in the face of death and pressing on to our final
destination at all costs -- it makes picking up chicks easier. In
fact, however, the reality of GA flying couldn't be farther from the
truth.

An illustration: On our last flight, we flew from Iowa City, IA to
Racine, WI, for Christmas. (This would be like frying from France to
Germany, to put that into perspective for you.)

This involved:

1. Pre-flighting the plane (a walk around, with oil and fuel checks)
2. Loading the plane
3. Starting the plane
4. Programming two GPS's
5. Taking off, and turning to course.
6. Climbing to altitude
7. Following the course (as if we need it -- I've done this flight a
hundred times) to Racine.
8. Land.

Compare this to the complexity of DRIVING to Racine, and you'll see
that flying there is by FAR easier. No traffic. No toll booths. No
maniac cab drivers. No complicated routing around Chicago. It was
literally as easy as falling off a log.

I'll give you this: The TRAINING to become a pilot is difficult -- and
commercial piloting is, of course, a WHOLE different kettle of fish.
They must fly in all weather, into difficult airports -- whereas I get
to choose the times, places and weather in which I fly.

But we're talking GA flying, not commercial. Once you've become a GA
pilot and put a few hours under your belt, cross-country GA flying is
far easier than driving, IMHO.
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On 31 Dec 2006 06:29:26 -0800, Jay Honeck wrote:

Real spambots don't harvest addresses using Google Groups. G

True enough. The point being that if ALL newsreader software truncated
in-line email addresses like Google Groups,

google groups is only a (free) nntp provider with a web frontend.

perhaps the spammers would
start to wither...

ha! and what keeps a spammer off from setting up his own nntp server?

#m
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In article . com,
Jay Honeck wrote:

But we're talking GA flying, not commercial. Once you've become a GA
pilot and put a few hours under your belt, cross-country GA flying is
far easier than driving, IMHO.


Until your kids have to pee and it's a holiday so you can't raise a
single UNICOM along your route. I'll always be indebted to the Mooney
who heard our plea and taxied back to unlock the FBO. :-)

--
Scott Post

Hmm? A new suite in the offing?

Jay Honeck wrote:

What, don't want to become a member of the mile high club...even a
simulated member ?



Ha! Yet another use for our "Kiwi" flight simulator in the hotel!

:-)

"Scott Post" wrote in message ...
: In article . com,
: Jay Honeck wrote:
:
: But we're talking GA flying, not commercial. Once you've become a GA
: pilot and put a few hours under your belt, cross-country GA flying is
: far easier than driving, IMHO.
:
:
: Until your kids have to pee and it's a holiday so you can't raise a
: single UNICOM along your route. I'll always be indebted to the Mooney
: who heard our plea and taxied back to unlock the FBO. :-)
:
: --
: Scott Post


He heard our plea...
Our kid has to pee!!!!
so back to the FBO for thee....


;-)

Steve Foley writes:

I thought you were interested in simulation, not aviation.

They are variations on the same theme.

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