Did I miss the Era of GA?

Mxsmanic wrote:
Tim writes:


It is no more expensive that other hobbies or activities.


The number of other hobbies and activities that are orders of magnitude less
expensive than flying is too great to allow them all to be enumerated here.


It takes about 70 hours of flight training to get a private pilot certificate.


It takes a pencil and a piece of charcoal to practice art as a hobby.


I see no correlation between simulation and real flying.


I see no correlation between flying tin cans and flying any other type of
aircraft. But perhaps we're both wrong.


Perhaps the reluctance of real pilots to welcome
you has little to do with your chosen way to spend time (simming/gaming)
than it is your clear and often rudely stated discussions about how GA
is useless and the pilots of GA aircraft are stupid, ignorant, filthy
rich, macho/testosterone filled babies with huge egos.


Their reluctance is directly connected to their emotions. Unfortunately, some
of those emotions are indeed correlated with stupidity, ignorance, and
testosterone, although the correlation is not terribly high.


Most pilots I have met do not match the view you have of them.


Most of those pilots don't start threads five times a week discussing me here
in this newsgroup.



Why do you bother to post to this newsgroup if you already know more
than GA pilots and don't ever wish to fly in a real plane? This is
clearly a GA newsgroup. You are wasting your time on here.

You are a topic of discussion because you seem to be unique in the
readership by holding yourself out as someone who knows more than others
but has not ever take a GA flight and who has no intention of ever doing
so. Your "knowledge" of flying is all theoretical and so narrowly
focused. You cannot ever seem to acknowledge that others have different
opinions and actually can fly small airplane and it is practical for
them. You also insult so many people by insisting that plane ownership
and GA is for the spoiled rich and those with more money than brains.
That is not the case, but you cling to the notion that flying is the
most expensive pastime around. You are dead wrong. Glider flying is
one clear example. There are many glider clubs in the US that use
volunteers for tows and instruction. The cost of getting a pilot
certificate in that case is below $2000. Many people do it.

Never once have I seen you concede that you were/are wrong on any point.
Do you purposely try to frustrate people? I think so. I think you
enjoy trying to control people's emotions because you clearly have too
much time on your hands and no "real" life to speak of - your life is
lived from your chair in front of your computer.

Tim writes:

I would look for new medical textbooks.

Because they disagree with some stranger on a newsgroup? No, I don't think
so.

I have experienced dehydration.

So have I. But I've also studied it.

You're wrong on this one.

How do you know?

Thirst is an indicator, but it is not true
that dehydration must always include a symptom of thirst.

Unless it is extremely acute, thirst is a reliable indicator of dehydration.
If it were not, then people would die regularly of dehydration, since they'd
have no incentive to rehydrate.

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Tim writes:

Why do you bother to post to this newsgroup if you already know more
than GA pilots and don't ever wish to fly in a real plane?

Some people here know more than I do about certain questions I have in the
domain of aviation. Granted, it's hard to sort through the noise sometimes,
as the most vocal posters are often the most wrong as well, but there are
occasional nuggets of useful information.

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"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Tim writes:

I would look for new medical textbooks.

Because they disagree with some stranger on a newsgroup? No, I don't
think
so.

I have experienced dehydration.

So have I. But I've also studied it.

Book title, and page number (or at least chapter title) please.

Oh, I know, you can't be bothered, you don't have the book any more, yada,
yada, yada.
--
Jim in NC

Here's one article, like many others that I've read, that expresses many
of the issues that sounds so dismal for GA. I'm now seriously considering
scrapping the idea of a PPL once again but I'd like to hear from some
people out there if the situation is not really as bad as this sounds.

http://www.megginson.com/blogs/lahso...eral-aviation/

Thanks


There is always a reason not to do something if you look hard enough. You
could also fall down the stairs tomorrow.

I say if you want to fly, start the training. If you do not like it after
you start, quit and do something else. You will never know unless you try!!

John

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Gene Seibel writes:

Either you want to fly or you don't. You decide.

Unfortunately, when confronted with an attitude like that, most people
immediately decide that they don't want to.


Good, more room for me.

Thanskfully you're one of those that doesn't fly...


bertie

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Gig 601XL Builder writes:

2. (In)Security: We are currently in a war.

The United States is not currently at war.

2.The FAA with a lot of pushing from EAA and AOPA have created the
LSA license and aircraft certification standard that will allow you
to buy a brand new 2 place aircraft comparable to the one I'm
building for less than $100K. Take a 16 hour course and you will even
be able to work on you own LSA aircraft.

Of course, you can't do much with it. And if you want an LSA because
you failed the medical for a regular PPL, you're out of luck (that's a
really bizarre rule).


no, it isn't, you just can't understand it..



Bertie

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Larry Dighera writes:

While I can understand your desire to get some feedback from those
currently enjoying the joy of flight before committing the not
insubstantial time and resources required to obtain your airmans
certificate, if you would let their input, or indeed that of your
wife, stand in the path to your dream, you may not have the requisite
'fire in your belly' to make a good airman.

Why must one have "fire in the belly" in order to be entitled to fly?
Is it a hazing ritual, or is it a hobby?

let me guess, you don't fly...



Bertie

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Tim writes:

There may be some in the community who feel more special because they
fly, but that is not the norm.

Perhaps the abnormal ones are strangely attracted ot USENET, then.

Actually, however, the USENET syndrome is not unique to pilots. It's
much more closely associated with IQ than occupation.



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Bertie

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Tim writes:

Why do you bother to post to this newsgroup if you already know more
than GA pilots and don't ever wish to fly in a real plane?

Some people here know more than I do about certain questions I have in
the domain of aviation.


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I have a six month old puppy downstairs that knows more than you about
aviation!



bertie