Oh, I do. I showed my wife our posts last night, and she says:

#1, strike "Bar", read "Restaurant with good service, and owned by
friends"
#2, "The views expressed here are those of the correspondent, and do not
necessarily reflect those of the management"
#3, "I have the highest respect for Airshow Pilots, Performers, and
participants, particularly military, and I love a good uniform."

She has obviously spent too much time hanging around airports.

Sitting corrected, Al



"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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I''m sure she did. Let's just say that as an ex demonstration pilot, I
have a "friendly, but negative reaction to seeing a thought like that in
print for the world to see. It's the kind of thing that has been known to
give the wrong impression so to speak. I'm sure you understand. :-)
DH
"Al" wrote in message
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Well Dudley, I think she said it sorta tongue in cheek, but I agree with
you. Pilots think ahead of the car/plane etc. al



"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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I'm sorry your wife has such a low opinion of airshow pilots.

To answer your question, if the lot was full of pilots qualified enough
to be doing demonstration work, you would probably have a situation
filled with people who first of all had done this many times before and
were comfortable with the "system", and secondly, people who were
capable of making flow decisions in real time.
In other words, if you have people who are flow conscious and you have
three cars approaching a constricted spot that has room for only one at
a time, you will most likely get all three sizing up the situation at
once as to exactly how each fits into the pipeline as that pertains to
rate of closure, range, and angle off the constricted spot. Each would
automatically adjust to that real time input to create a spacing
favorable to each one's position.
The result could easily be a smooth transition area just in front of the
constriction (or gate as the case may be).
As a show performer, I've seen this happen many many times and think
little about it.
On the reverse side of this coin you have the average everyday driver
facing a constriction on the highway. The result is usually chaos,
gridlock, and every other driver exercising his or her middle finger to
the point of carpal tunnel syndrome!! :-))
Dudley Henriques

"Al" wrote in message
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Ok, the air show season is running down, and once again I ask, Why
does the Pilot parking empty first. For years I worked at the Medford
National Air show, Medford, Oregon. We had a Pilot/Performer parking
lot that held a couple hundred cars. Without exception, the Pilot
parking emptied first.

My only thought was cooperation. The pilots seem to space themselves
out approaching the gate. With two car length spacing, two rows
"feeding" into a gate, the streams can merge with about 1/2 car length
spacing at the gate. Of course like a fire hose and nozzle, rapid
acceleration takes place right at the narrowest point. I've never seen
a pilot stop at the gate to say "After You". But it happened all the
time at the public parking gate. The pilots seemed to act as one under
the "Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way" protocol.

My wife says that they are all going to the same place, the Bar just
down the road. With formation driving, and even though they circle the
bar parking lot once on their way in, they can fill the Bar lot rapidly
and sequentially, like 50 "Blue Angels"(My apologies to the NAVY).

My son says that it is the "school of fish" theory as applied to the
stop sign at the gate, and the speed limit on the dirt road. If you are
a cop, and you have 100 smoothly moving cars, (even at high speed), do
you mess with It? Who do you stop? How? Stop 'em all? (the Mayor is
probably in there somewhere).

Your Thoughts?

Al