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"Roger" wrote in message To help her get set up with a rich guy to take care of her and the kids? I'd say that's being thoughtful. I was on a business trip a couple years back, on the bus to Tokyo-Narita airport to catch a flight to Bangkok. I conveniently and rather unsurprisingly ended up talking to the only other caucasian American on the bus, a married father of two guy in his late 40s whose job involved constant travel and occasional visits to places not renowned for their high standards of safety. His wife was understandably less than thrilled with this, but, he said, "I don't worry because if anything happens to me on one of these trips she'll be collecting on so many policies she won't even have to think about working ever again." I think this is how men have to a large degree been programmed to think. We are the providers for the family and our number one job is to make sure everyone is fed, clothed, and put through college. Money is money whether it's coming from our paycheck or an insurance policy. A mother's job on the other hand is to mother, and that can't be done but in person. This has even carried over into the present post-modern era of intentionally broken families. Fail to pay your child support and the whole machinery of justice might well mobilize against you. Do it often enough and they'll put your mug in the local paper. But how many times have you heard of a judge putting a father in jail for failing to show up to take the kids for the weekend? -cwk. |
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Wow, I asked a short question a couple of weeks ago and the thread
is still going. The funny and good thing about it is I started up my IFR training again. My last flight was at the end of May. My first flight went very good. Very little rust amazingly but afterwards my head was still beyond overloaded. Did the 2nd flight 4 days after that. Did 4 approaches to near ATP standards and afterwards I could form normal sentences and didn't appear braindead. In fact, on the ILS, I had time to tell my CFII to stop playing with the AM radio (ADF) while I was literally drumming my fingertips on the dashboard. Right now my CFII and I agreed that from now I fly only in IMC. At worst, we make some trips in low IMC after I get the ticket. Hhe also thinks I can finish this up my January. I think that is a little optimistic but February definitely. I also might be going on some XC IFR trips just to build up the 40 hours. On that behalf, THANKS EVERYONE SO MUCH FOR ALL THE IFR DISCUSSION. Gerald |
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Dan Luke wrote:
Seriously - I think we've now narrowed our range of disagreement to what our passengers get out of joyrides (meaning flights going nowhere in particular made for no particular reason). I think they get as much out of it as we do, you seem not to agree. I don't. No way the average person gets as much out of a flight I'm piloting as I do. If he did, he'd become a flying nut like me. Not necessarily. I know at least one who loves to fly, but realizes he doesn't have what it takes to be a pilot (IMO correctly). I know others who feel they simply can't afford it (sometimes correctly). I use a rule of thumb - if the person is asking me, and offering to pay for gas (which I never accept, but the offer is usually made) then he must get as much out of it as I do. But that may be something on which we will have to agree to disagree - figuring out what motivates people and how much isn't a science, it's opinion. Michael |
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Dan Luke wrote:
Seriously - I think we've now narrowed our range of disagreement to what our passengers get out of joyrides (meaning flights going nowhere in particular made for no particular reason). I think they get as much out of it as we do, you seem not to agree. I don't. No way the average person gets as much out of a flight I'm piloting as I do. If he did, he'd become a flying nut like me. Not necessarily. I know at least one who loves to fly, but realizes he doesn't have what it takes to be a pilot (IMO correctly). I know others who feel they simply can't afford it (sometimes correctly). I use a rule of thumb - if the person is asking me, and offering to pay for gas (which I never accept, but the offer is usually made) then he must get as much out of it as I do. But that may be something on which we will have to agree to disagree - figuring out what motivates people and how much isn't a science, it's opinion. Michael |
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On 7 Dec 2004 09:55:51 -0800, "Michael"
wrote: I know at least one who loves to fly, but realizes he doesn't have what it takes to be a pilot (IMO correctly). What is tihs Top Gun? I've known someone blind in one eye who was a good pilot, and various people who are scared of their own shadow who are good pilots. I also know brash people who aren't affraid of anything and may be an accident waiting to happen, but they know how to control an airplane. There are even parapalegics who are pilot's! Given so many different ways to excercise your priviledges, I just don't understand what it means to "not have what it takes to be a pilot." He may not fly from California to Maine, but I'm sure given enough time he could learn to aviate effectively and perform emergency procedures profficiently as a local pilot. Now more than ever with a Sport license, maybe this is his ticket to get in the air. z |
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I agree.
anyone who possesses the motor skills and the native intelligence to safely dirve a car, probably has what it takes to fly a general aviation airplane. On the other hand, fear can cause strange things to happen, But if he loves to fly, he probably "has what it takes". On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 18:31:31 GMT, zatatime wrote: On 7 Dec 2004 09:55:51 -0800, "Michael" wrote: I know at least one who loves to fly, but realizes he doesn't have what it takes to be a pilot (IMO correctly). What is tihs Top Gun? I've known someone blind in one eye who was a good pilot, and various people who are scared of their own shadow who are good pilots. I also know brash people who aren't affraid of anything and may be an accident waiting to happen, but they know how to control an airplane. There are even parapalegics who are pilot's! Given so many different ways to excercise your priviledges, I just don't understand what it means to "not have what it takes to be a pilot." He may not fly from California to Maine, but I'm sure given enough time he could learn to aviate effectively and perform emergency procedures profficiently as a local pilot. Now more than ever with a Sport license, maybe this is his ticket to get in the air. z |
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On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 18:31:31 GMT, zatatime wrote:
On 7 Dec 2004 09:55:51 -0800, "Michael" wrote: I know at least one who loves to fly, but realizes he doesn't have what it takes to be a pilot (IMO correctly). What is tihs Top Gun? I've known someone blind in one eye who was a good pilot, and various people who are scared of their own shadow who are good pilots. After this many years I can truly say I've met a lot of people who would never, or could never become pilots. I've seen pilots lose their judgmental capability, but they thought they were doing fine. One guy ran out of gas three times and had off airport landings in just a couple of months. Totaled the airplane on the third one. I've seen students who just could not multitask enough to safely fly an airplane *except* when every thing went right. Throw in an emergency and they'd either panic or just give up. I saw one student get too low on final, give it too much gas, over corrected for that and turned the 150 into a lawn dart. Put shoulders in the wings at the struts. Now that's not much of an indicator by itself. Every one makes mistakes. He went on to get his PPL and did well. However, one day less than a year later, he did pretty much the same thing with a 172. He quite flying. I also know brash people who aren't affraid of anything and may be an accident waiting to happen, but they know how to control an airplane. And people like that should not be let near an airplane. There are even parapalegics who are pilot's! Certainly and the few I do know have great judgmental ability. Knowing how to control an airplane does not make a pilot. Being able to handle the airplane and yourself in adverse conditions, while making decisions under pressure does. Given so many different ways to excercise your priviledges, I just don't understand what it means to "not have what it takes to be a pilot." If you stick around long enough you will. :-)) He may not fly from California to Maine, but I'm sure given enough time he could learn to aviate effectively and perform emergency procedures profficiently as a local pilot. Learning the procedures is the easy part. When the *proper* responses become automatic you are well on the way. Now more than ever with a Sport license, maybe this is his ticket to get in the air. I think the Sport Pilot is a good idea, but there is a reason they limit the seating capacity to two and the airspeed as well as weight. Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member) (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair) www.rogerhalstead.com z |
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On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 06:34:28 GMT, "C Kingsbury"
wrote: "Roger" wrote in message To help her get set up with a rich guy to take care of her and the kids? I'd say that's being thoughtful. I was on a business trip a couple years back, on the bus to Tokyo-Narita airport to catch a flight to Bangkok. I conveniently and rather My Daughter's hotel was only a bit over a 100 yards from the bomb that went off in Bali. She said it knocked the plaster off the ceiling which then fell on them. After taking a look at the hole in the street the next day, the condition of their hotel, they decided to stay elsewhere. snip Roger Roger |
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What is tihs Top Gun? I've known someone blind in one eye who was a
good pilot, and various people who are scared of their own shadow who are good pilots. Someone who is not prepared to be solely responsible for his fate, and to make quick correct decisions under pressure should not be a pilot. The particular situation was this. We were on final. It was night and mist was setting in reducing visibility (hours ahead of the forecast - horoscopes with numbers) but it was OK beacuse in another minute we would be on the ground and rolling. Part of the runway was shut down but 2200 ft was still remaining to use - more than enough for a Tomahawk. At 500 ft I reached for the flap lever and it would not move. ****! Now what? Go around and sort it out, since the fog probably wouldn't roll in during the 5-10 minutes that might take? Land anyway, because 2200 ft was probably still plenty for a no-flap landing in a Tommy? It's not articularly a big deal, though it might seem that way to a pilot who has just over 100 hours and can count his in-type hours on his fingers. What's the correct decision? You can make an argument in favor of either answer. In retrospect either would have worked. I had a hell of a time finding the airport in the lit-up suburbia (even to the point of needing a RADAR vector) and didn't want to risk losing sight of the airport on the go-around, so I opted to land. 2200 ft was plenty. The other way would likely have worked too - it took another 30 minutes at least before the vis dropped below VFR, and I could always have gotten another vector. It was no big deal. After the flight, my passenger asked me what the "****!" was about, and I explained it to him. Right there and then he decided that he wasn't interested in being pilot in command. Ever. At first I couldn't understand why, but then I started paying attention to his driving. He doesn't do well with making decisions and sticking to them. For example, you're pulling out onto a road. You need to pick a space in traffic you can merge into. That requires mostly looking upstream. Once the decision is made and you move out into the road, it's really too late to change your mind. You move briskly and look downstream, the direction you're going. He moves slowly and keeps looking upstream when he can. He has been rear-ended a couple of times. Not his fault of course. Downthread, someone mentioned that anyone who can safely drive a car can learn to safely pilot an airplane. I agree. But this guy can't safely drive a car either - and if you spend much time on the road, you quickly realize he isn't unique. Michael |
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