I'm not a real Pilot?

Tim writes:

Not likely

Which makes it all the more humiliating if it happens.

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Mxsmanic wrote in
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Tim writes:

Not likely

Which makes it all the more humiliating if it happens.


You couldn't start my airplane, you couldn't taxi it. you couldn't get
it to the end of th erunway in one piece, if you did, you couldn't do a
succesful takeoff roll in one piece, nor rotate to the correct attitude
and chances are, even if you did all the above, you wouldn't clear the
obstacles at the end of the runway where it's based.

and that's just a widdle bitty lightplane.

As to the one I work on, you couldn't figure out how to even get on
board it and power it up so you could do any of the above.


Bertie

Mxsmanic wrote:
Tim writes:


Not likely


Which makes it all the more humiliating if it happens.


How is ego or humiliation involved at all?

It is highly unlikely that a person who never flew/piloted an aircraft
before could land one successfully. There is a reason it takes about 10
to 30 hours of instruction to land a single engine plane. It is not
something that people can do naturally. There are also enough people
flying small planes who have used "flight simulators" prior to taking
lessons. I have never, ever heard of someone who could land a plane
right from the start. It just does not happen.

Granted, 10 to 20 hours is not a lot of time and just about anyone can
be taught how to do it. Given that, how would anyone get an ego issue
from flying? I am not sure where you get that crap about pilots having
huge egos. Is this from real experience, or just from postings on the
internet?

Mxsmanic wrote in
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writes:

Yep David, those are the people you want to take for a ride and while on
short final, let go of the controls and tell them, "You Have the Plane."

Want to see how fast you become a real pilot?

Of course, if they successfully land, your ego may implode.


I can tel you for a fact you couldn't do it.


Bertie

David writes:

So why is it the general public thinks that to be a real
pilot you have to aspire to become a scheduled airline captain?

For much the same reason that some people think that people who fly simulators
cannot be real pilots. It's human nature to try to rank people, always in
such a way that the person doing the ranking turns out to merit a high rank,
whereas other people turn out to merit a low rank.

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Mxsmanic wrote in
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David writes:

So why is it the general public thinks that to be a real
pilot you have to aspire to become a scheduled airline captain?

For much the same reason that some people think that people who fly
simulators cannot be real pilots.

No, you can't be a real pilot beczause you're an idiot,. has nothing to do
with you pretending to be a pilot in your corn flakes box

On Mar 30, 11:03 am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

No, you can't be a real pilot beczause you're an idiot,. has nothing to do
with you pretending to be a pilot in your corn flakes box

You on the other hand are an RJ Doofus.

"NTurk" wrote in
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On Mar 30, 11:03 am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

No, you can't be a real pilot beczause you're an idiot,. has nothing
to do with you pretending to be a pilot in your corn flakes box

You on the other hand are an RJ Doofus.


Am I now?


Bwawhawhhahwhahwhahhwhahwhahhwhahw!


Bertie

Mxsmanic wrote:
David writes:


So why is it the general public thinks that to be a real
pilot you have to aspire to become a scheduled airline captain?


For much the same reason that some people think that people who fly simulators
cannot be real pilots. It's human nature to try to rank people, always in
such a way that the person doing the ranking turns out to merit a high rank,
whereas other people turn out to merit a low rank.


No one said you could not be one. Just that you are not one. Big
difference.

Tim wrote in :

Mxsmanic wrote:
David writes:


So why is it the general public thinks that to be a real
pilot you have to aspire to become a scheduled airline captain?


For much the same reason that some people think that people who fly
simulators cannot be real pilots. It's human nature to try to rank
people, always in such a way that the person doing the ranking turns
out to merit a high rank, whereas other people turn out to merit a
low rank.


No one said you could not be one. Just that you are not one. Big
difference.

No, not so I said he couldn't be one. He can't


Bertie