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Old October 9th 06, 02:00 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.aviation.students
Judah
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Default Which of these is cheating?

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Judah writes:

Is remaining within the lines of a highway important, or is it OK to
swerve in and out of moving traffic?


An interesting analogy, since the lanes may be wider than many small
cars, and in some areas there are no lanes. I've heard Americans
complain that there are no lines on many roads in Europe. My answer
is that European drivers are trained well enough to drive in an
appropriate place without lines to show them where they should be.

Are there lanes in VFR, or merely broad roads?


When driving on a road with no lines, do you still stay on the right side
except to pass? Or do you drive down the middle until there is traffic
coming at you in the opposite direction?

Look. I, like most of the other pilots on this forum, spent a significant
amount of money learning to fly. I took a course, bought a video and some
books, took the time to read them, and spent a bunch of hours with an
instructor to get my certification. Flying the plane is the easy part -
it's all of the rules and regulations, systems, navigation techniques, and
emergency operations that make up most of the training to become a pilot.

I think some of the reason that you are having so much trouble getting
cooperation on this forum is that you are asking questions in a way that
demonstrates your clear lack of understanding of basic concepts like VFR
altitudes. You clearly haven't even googled your question, which has been
discussed before on this very forum, and included a wrong assumption that
is so basic it is simply insulting. You are asking the members of this
forum to be your private tutor at no cost, and don't even have the courtesy
to look to see if your question has been answered elsewhere in the FARs or
on the Piloting forums. Personally I have better things to do with my time
(like fly, for one).

You don't even have to pay to learn the answers to the questions you are
asking. You can get most of the information that you are looking for by
googling it. Questions about choosing altitudes to fly, and questions about
the power curve have all been discussed on these forums many times before.
I think you would save yourself a lot of time and hassle if you at least
spent enough time reading the existing threads and regulations that you had
some familiarity with real world flying.

You might even want to go to your local airport and get yourself a
discovery flight.