"Jack" wrote in message
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C J Campbell wrote:

Airplanes continue to be difficult to land, maintain course and
altitude, and navigate.

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They still are monstrously hard to control in flight and
even harder to land. One would think that flying could be
made a lot easier than it is now.

It could be, but at much greater cost and with the required technology
separating your already highly stressed, inadequately motivated,
under-trained, and relatively inexperienced human pilot even further
from a comprehension of, and facility with, the dynamics of flight.

Flying an aircraft is not for everybody and we ought to worry less about
fitting square pegs into round holes for the purpose of achieving
dubious economies of scale for those few who are well suited to the game.

What is the point of trying to make a Citabria handle like an F-16? Each
is already available to the appropriately qualified.

What is the point of making sure that aviation is so difficult that only a
few people can fly? More particularly, is it really that difficult? The
hurdles that we have now seem to be no barrier to plenty of idiots.

A few people here have been saying that there are too many pilots as it
is -- they don't want to share 'their' airspace with any more. That is just
nuts. There used to be many more pilots than there are now.

General aviation should be a viable and useful form of transportation. Too
many people seem to think that it should be limited to a recreational sport
accessible to only a few. Trouble is, this is the same thing that the
airport haters have been saying for years -- that general aviation is
dominated by elitist romantics who don't give a dead rat about anyone else.