One More Reason I Prefer GA

[Kyle Boatright]

Not being IFR rated (or having an IFR capable airplane), Kelly and I took a
people tube from Atlanta to San Antonio on Thursday and flew back on
Christmas Day. We usually take commercial flights when we absolutely have
to be somewhere. You really can't count on getting anywhere VFR,
particularly this time of year.

Anyway, now I'm sick as a dog. Massive sinus infection. Which I suspect was
due to being stuffed into a 10' diameter tube for about 5 hours with a bunch
of people, quite a few who were visibly under the weather.

It seems like I catch a cold/sinus/whatever kind of thing about 1/3 of the
time I fly commercial. That simply doesn't happen when we take my airplane.

So here I sit, grumpy on the couch.

KB

[Darkwing]

"Kyle Boatright" > wrote in message
. ..
> Not being IFR rated (or having an IFR capable airplane), Kelly and I took
> a people tube from Atlanta to San Antonio on Thursday and flew back on
> Christmas Day. We usually take commercial flights when we absolutely have
> to be somewhere. You really can't count on getting anywhere VFR,
> particularly this time of year.
>
> Anyway, now I'm sick as a dog. Massive sinus infection. Which I suspect
> was due to being stuffed into a 10' diameter tube for about 5 hours with a
> bunch of people, quite a few who were visibly under the weather.
>
> It seems like I catch a cold/sinus/whatever kind of thing about 1/3 of the
> time I fly commercial. That simply doesn't happen when we take my
> airplane.
>
> So here I sit, grumpy on the couch.
>
> KB
>

Damn, looks like a terrorsit attack to me, germ warfare!

------------------------------------
DW

[Gene Seibel]

Kyle Boatright wrote:
> Not being IFR rated (or having an IFR capable airplane), Kelly and I took a
> people tube from Atlanta to San Antonio on Thursday and flew back on
> Christmas Day. We usually take commercial flights when we absolutely have
> to be somewhere. You really can't count on getting anywhere VFR,
> particularly this time of year.
>
> Anyway, now I'm sick as a dog. Massive sinus infection. Which I suspect was
> due to being stuffed into a 10' diameter tube for about 5 hours with a bunch
> of people, quite a few who were visibly under the weather.
>
> It seems like I catch a cold/sinus/whatever kind of thing about 1/3 of the
> time I fly commercial. That simply doesn't happen when we take my airplane.

I got stuck two days in the passenger terminal in STL by an ice storm
and was sick a week and a half.
--
Gene Seibel
Gene & Sue's Aeroplanes - http://pad39a.com/gene/planes.html
Because we fly, we envy no one.

[Mxsmanic]

Kyle Boatright writes:

> It seems like I catch a cold/sinus/whatever kind of thing about 1/3 of the
> time I fly commercial. That simply doesn't happen when we take my airplane.

That's because commercial airliners are filled with other people, many
of whom are probably suffering from contagious respiratory infections.
When you fly your own airplane, there are no other sources of germs,
so you cannot become sick.

--
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[Peter Dohm]

"Mxsmanic" > wrote in message
...
> Kyle Boatright writes:
>
> > It seems like I catch a cold/sinus/whatever kind of thing about 1/3 of
the
> > time I fly commercial. That simply doesn't happen when we take my
airplane.
>
> That's because commercial airliners are filled with other people, many
> of whom are probably suffering from contagious respiratory infections.
> When you fly your own airplane, there are no other sources of germs,
> so you cannot become sick.
>
> --
> Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.

It may seem incredible, for a bunch of macho men inclined to take the
controls, but some here had already suspected all of that.

[Kingfish]

Mxsmanic wrote:
>
> That's because commercial airliners are filled with other people, many
> of whom are probably suffering from contagious respiratory infections.
> When you fly your own airplane, there are no other sources of germs,
> so you cannot become sick.
>

Thank you, Captain Obvious...

[Morgans[_5_]]

"Kingfish wrote

> Thank you, Captain Obvious...

This comment is not just for you, kingfish, and I'm not picking on you, but
for everyone.

A simple response like this is still what trolls desire.

I hope that everyone makes a new year's resolution, like, "I will not make
ANY kind of response to mxmanic, at all, this year"

He will stay, until we ALL stop.
--
Jim in NC

[Montblack]

("Morgans" wrote)
> He will stay, until we ALL stop.


"Thank you, Captain Obvious..." <g>


Montblack :-)

[Kingfish]

Morgans wrote:
>
> I hope that everyone makes a new year's resolution, like, "I will not make
> ANY kind of response to mxmanic, at all, this year"
>

OK Jim, you're on : )

I've tried the rational approach with that guy, (it failed miserably)
so in the interest of raising the signal-to-noise ratio in this forum
I'm officially mute..

[Morgans[_5_]]

"Kingfish" > wrote

> OK Jim, you're on : )
>
> I've tried the rational approach with that guy, (it failed miserably)
> so in the interest of raising the signal-to-noise ratio in this forum
> I'm officially mute..

I tried logical, harassment, and frequent posts asking individuals to not
reply (and you would think I was denying them of their constitutional
rights, or something), and blocking everyone who ever posted to him, and
blocking him.

Not a thing has made a difference, it seems.

Let's all urge everyone to be mute, like you, (thanks) no mater the need to
respond, and perhaps we can have a "non-contaminated" group by the new year.

I must be dreaming, though. <g> Some have no self control. :-(
--
Jim in NC

[Peter Dohm]

> > I hope that everyone makes a new year's resolution, like, "I will not
make
> > ANY kind of response to mxmanic, at all, this year"
> >
>
> OK Jim, you're on : )
>
> I've tried the rational approach with that guy, (it failed miserably)
> so in the interest of raising the signal-to-noise ratio in this forum
> I'm officially mute..
>
I try to do the same; but every now-and-then, the Devil taps me on the
shoulder and whispers: "Psst, hey, Pete, ... ".

I'll try harder--that's one of my New Year's resolutions.

[Barney Rubble]

5 Hours ATL to SAT, boy that was a slow old turboprop.

- Barney

"Kyle Boatright" > wrote in message
. ..
> Not being IFR rated (or having an IFR capable airplane), Kelly and I took
> a people tube from Atlanta to San Antonio on Thursday and flew back on
> Christmas Day. We usually take commercial flights when we absolutely have
> to be somewhere. You really can't count on getting anywhere VFR,
> particularly this time of year.
>
> Anyway, now I'm sick as a dog. Massive sinus infection. Which I suspect
> was due to being stuffed into a 10' diameter tube for about 5 hours with a
> bunch of people, quite a few who were visibly under the weather.
>
> It seems like I catch a cold/sinus/whatever kind of thing about 1/3 of the
> time I fly commercial. That simply doesn't happen when we take my
> airplane.
>
> So here I sit, grumpy on the couch.
>
> KB
>

[Mortimer Schnerd, RN]

Morgans wrote:
> I tried logical, harassment, and frequent posts asking individuals to not
> reply (and you would think I was denying them of their constitutional
> rights, or something), and blocking everyone who ever posted to him, and
> blocking him.
>
> Not a thing has made a difference, it seems.



You've got to be kidding. I nuked him and the more prolific of his responders
and my noise level has dropped dramatically.



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN

Mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com

[Mxsmanic]

Peter Dohm writes:

> It may seem incredible, for a bunch of macho men inclined to take the
> controls, but some here had already suspected all of that.

A lot of people don't know that much about medicine.

--
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[Jose[_1_]]

> I tried logical, harassment, and frequent posts

Yes. IOW, you tried being annoying to the rest of the group.

Jose
--
He who laughs, lasts.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

[Morgans[_5_]]

>> I tried logical, harassment, and frequent posts
>
> Yes. IOW, you tried being annoying to the rest of the group.

And you did what, to try to fix the problem? I suppose you don't think
there is a problem.
--
Jim in NC

[Kyle Boatright]

"Barney Rubble" > wrote in message
...
>5 Hours ATL to SAT, boy that was a slow old turboprop.
>

Um, no, it was an MD-88. Which takes about 5 hours (counting ramp time) to
make an out and back from Atlanta to San Antonio and return.

KB

> - Barney
>
> "Kyle Boatright" > wrote in message
> . ..
>> Not being IFR rated (or having an IFR capable airplane), Kelly and I took
>> a people tube from Atlanta to San Antonio on Thursday and flew back on
>> Christmas Day. We usually take commercial flights when we absolutely
>> have to be somewhere. You really can't count on getting anywhere VFR,
>> particularly this time of year.
>>
>> Anyway, now I'm sick as a dog. Massive sinus infection. Which I suspect
>> was due to being stuffed into a 10' diameter tube for about 5 hours with
>> a bunch of people, quite a few who were visibly under the weather.
>>
>> It seems like I catch a cold/sinus/whatever kind of thing about 1/3 of
>> the time I fly commercial. That simply doesn't happen when we take my
>> airplane.
>>
>> So here I sit, grumpy on the couch.
>>
>> KB
>>
>
>

[Jose[_1_]]

> And you did what, to try to fix the problem? I suppose you don't think
> there is a problem.

When there is a problem with posters I don't want to read, I put them on
my ignore list, without posting about it. If there are threads I don't
want to read, I do the same to the thread (this is most often the case
with spam threads). "Author is...", "Subject contains..." "Subject
starts with..." are useful filters, and I just have my newsreader mark
them as read. I don't see them unless I want to go back and look.

If everyone who felt that way silently did the same thing, there would
be no problem. Instead people make more noise =about= the noise, than
the noise itself.

And, the truth is, not everyone feels the same way about any individual
poster, and I for one am not compelled to =make= people feel the same way.

It is true that when people respond to a poster on my ignore list in a
thread that is not being ignored, I see the response. For some reason,
that doesn't bother me. (I usually skip to the response, skipping the
quoted text, since chances are good I have already read it or can infer
its content). I sometimes find that responses to an ignored poster are
in fact of interest to me, even if the original post is not.

Sometimes people end up persecuted by a group, both in real life and on
the net. I don't support such actions. It's mean, nasty, and since I
don't want to be on one end of it, I won't contribute to the other end
of it.

Jose
--
He who laughs, lasts.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

[Jose[_1_]]

I'll add to my reply that, in the case of some posters who have been
abandoned as hopeless, I have not actually found them to be so.

Jose
--
He who laughs, lasts.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

[Morgans[_5_]]

"Jose" > wrote

> Sometimes people end up persecuted by a group, both in real life and on
> the net. I don't support such actions. It's mean, nasty, and since I
> don't want to be on one end of it, I won't contribute to the other end of
> it.

Wake up and smell the coffee! You have to use your head, in this case, for
something other than a hat rack.
--
Jim in NC