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Excellent TV Piece on GA
http://www.kgan.com/csArticles/artic...055/005537.htm
Amazing! This Cedar Rapids, Iowa TV station did a 2-part piece on learning to fly -- and did a wonderful job! The CFI in both segments, Tim Bush, is outstanding. He's a real pistol, locally, with a zillion ideas for growing GA, and endless energy to boot. If only we could get more publicity like this.... -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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Excellent TV Piece on GA
Jay Honeck writes:
http://www.kgan.com/csArticles/artic...055/005537.htm Amazing! This Cedar Rapids, Iowa TV station did a 2-part piece on learning to fly -- and did a wonderful job! The CFI in both segments, Tim Bush, is outstanding. He's a real pistol, locally, with a zillion ideas for growing GA, and endless energy to boot. If only we could get more publicity like this.... I think the six-thousand-dollar part is where a lot of viewers will stop listening. I can't find Part I but the medical part would also lose a fair number of viewers. If it were as difficult to drive as it is to fly, cars would be so rare that they'd turn heads as they passed (and people would be trying to forbid them to escape the noise). Conversely, if it were as easy to fly as it is to drive, the landscape would be littered with the wreckage of planes and cadavers, but the aircraft would only cost $15,000 or so, and new models would come out every year, rendering the old ones obsolete. |
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Excellent TV Piece on GA
I think the six-thousand-dollar part is where a lot of viewers will stop
listening. I can't find Part I but the medical part would also lose a fair number of viewers. $6K is what a cheap used car costs around here. It's also the price of a single semester at our public university, which has 30,000 students. Clearly, money is not the over-riding issue keeping more people out of the cockpit. The medical requirement is, quite frankly, a joke. The doc checks your eyes, your heart, makes sure you can carry on a conversation, and takes your check. Heck, you don't even have to "turn your head and cough" to get signed off for a 3rd class medical. If it were as difficult to drive as it is to fly, cars would be so rare that they'd turn heads as they passed (and people would be trying to forbid them to escape the noise). I wish. Cars can do things that planes can't. Further, personal cars do more necessary things than personal planes can do. I own both -- and I drive a heckuva lot more than I fly, for the reasons I've stated. Trust me -- if planes *could* substitute for cars, I'd fly every day. Conversely, if it were as easy to fly as it is to drive, the landscape would be littered with the wreckage of planes and cadavers, but the aircraft would only cost $15,000 or so, and new models would come out every year, rendering the old ones obsolete. Two things keep more people from flying: Ignorance and fear. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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Excellent TV Piece on GA
Jay Honeck writes:
$6K is what a cheap used car costs around here. It's also the price of a single semester at our public university, which has 30,000 students. Clearly, money is not the over-riding issue keeping more people out of the cockpit. For a lot of people, $6000 is a great deal of money. The medical requirement is, quite frankly, a joke. The doc checks your eyes, your heart, makes sure you can carry on a conversation, and takes your check. Heck, you don't even have to "turn your head and cough" to get signed off for a 3rd class medical. Then why doesn't the FAA eliminate it? I'm sure there are many people with minor but disqualifying conditions who would disagree with you, as well as airline captains who have been forced into an early change of career. Two things keep more people from flying: Ignorance and fear. As well as a lack of money and/or robust health (as the FAA would define it). |
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Excellent TV Piece on GA
On Nov 21, 11:04 pm, Mxsmanic wrote:
Jay Honeck writes: $6K is what a cheap used car costs around here. It's also the price of a single semester at our public university, which has 30,000 students. Clearly, money is not the over-riding issue keeping more people out of the cockpit. For a lot of people, $6000 is a great deal of money. In France perhaps, but in the US even people on welfare drive $10-20k cars. The medical requirement is, quite frankly, a joke. The doc checks your eyes, your heart, makes sure you can carry on a conversation, and takes your check. Heck, you don't even have to "turn your head and cough" to get signed off for a 3rd class medical. Then why doesn't the FAA eliminate it? I'm sure there are many people with minor but disqualifying conditions who would disagree with you, as well as airline captains who have been forced into an early change of career. No need to eliminate it, if you are physically able to drive a car, you are physically able to fly a plane as a private pilot. The FEW who are disqualified can apply for a variance or a waiver, if they are deemed safe to fly, they will be permitted to fly. Professional pilots are held to higher standards, and rightly so, as far as physical capabilities are concerned. Two things keep more people from flying: Ignorance and fear. As well as a lack of money and/or robust health (as the FAA would define it). See my answers above. Jay is correct ignorance and fear are the ONLY reasons people aren't flying. Anyone can walk up to an FBO with a $100 and be airborne and flying within 15 minutes. The $6,000 figure is to get you thru your entire PPL training. Just think of it as a 'pay-as-you-fly' plan, no one said you have to have $6,000 up front but that'd help. I've refrained from responding to you until now because you just don't seem to be able to comprehend or appreciate the answers when people make a sincere and honest attempt to respond to you. You really should give flying a try; you might really enjoy flying up in the open air. I guaranty you it is a world of difference from flying on a computer. William Hung |
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Excellent TV Piece on GA
See my answers above. Jay is correct ignorance and fear are the ONLY reasons people aren't flying. Anyone can walk up to an FBO with a I doubt these are the only reasons. The return on investment is what ultimately matters and is perceived differently by different people when it comes to investing $6000. Just as I don't have any particularly strong interest in learning to rock climb, I can imagine there are those who view flying with a similar apathy. In the end it would be hard to make the case that the PPL has a greater practical utility than say, learning to ride a horse. PPL flying is a niche hobby, and its hard to imagine that would change anytime soon. |
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Excellent TV Piece on GA
Mxsmanic wrote in
: .. I think the six-thousand-dollar part is where a lot of viewers will stop listening. I can't find Part I but the medical part would also lose a fair number of viewers. If it were as difficult to drive as it is to fly, cars would be so rare that they'd turn heads as they passed (and people would be trying to forbid them to escape the noise). Conversely, if it were as easy to fly as it is to drive, the landscape would be littered with the wreckage of planes and cadavers, but the aircraft would only cost $15,000 or so, and new models would come out every year, rendering the old ones obsolete. You're an idiot. Bertie |
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Excellent TV Piece on GA
Mxsmanic wrote in
: Jay Honeck writes: $6K is what a cheap used car costs around here. It's also the price of a single semester at our public university, which has 30,000 students. Clearly, money is not the over-riding issue keeping more people out of the cockpit. For a lot of people, $6000 is a great deal of money. The medical requirement is, quite frankly, a joke. The doc checks your eyes, your heart, makes sure you can carry on a conversation, and takes your check. Heck, you don't even have to "turn your head and cough" to get signed off for a 3rd class medical. Then why doesn't the FAA eliminate it? I'm sure there are many people with minor but disqualifying conditions who would disagree with you, as well as airline captains who have been forced into an early change of career. Two things keep more people from flying: Ignorance and fear. As well as a lack of money and/or robust health (as the FAA would define it). And being an idiot. Bertie |
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Excellent TV Piece onee GA
"William Hung" wrote No need to eliminate it, if you are physically able to drive a car, you are physically able to fly a plane as a private pilot. The FEW who are disqualified can apply for a variance or a waiver, if they are deemed safe to fly, they will be permitted to fly. Say WHAT??? Variance? ? ? WAIVER ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Bwaaa ha ha ha ha ha ha haw! ! ! -- Jim in NC |
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Excellent TV Piece on GA
Jay Honeck wrote:
The medical requirement is, quite frankly, a joke. The doc checks your eyes, your heart, makes sure you can carry on a conversation, and takes your check. Heck, you don't even have to "turn your head and cough" to get signed off for a 3rd class medical. Uhh.. my doc does a real thorough job when I get my 2nd class medical. Blood pressure, temperature, height and weight, urine sample, felt all over (literally) and yes, I even have to cough. I would not classify it as a joke, I would call it a very thorough flight physical. |
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