FAA has a new catagory out. It's been out about a year.
Sport Pilot where you don't have to take the medical to get the license
(this is if you've never been turned down in a medical before by FAA
doctors.)
You can only fly GTW 1320 lbs (Piper Cubs, and other lightweight A/C)

Ground time is the same, but you only have to have 20 hrs cross country as I
remember when the FBO told me up here.

King Schools offers the ground courses
and I think volunteer CFI examiners give the test.

All you have to show is your driver's license.




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"Not4wood" wrote in message
news:ZhfEh.6007$2u.4703@trndny04...
Hey JW,

I just peaked inside RAP for the first time because of all the commotion
thats gone on because of MX Manic depressed. I cant believe the level of
anger that he has caused in RAP.

Some people are still trying to be nice but he goes and says stupid things
to **** them off also.

Let me introduce myself to the RAP. I am an msfs pilot only. But I do
fly (passenger) and have been in a Beaver for a flight around the
mountains of Mt McKinley this past summer. I cant express how
breathtaking it was and how amazing being in a real plane trying to hear
each other over the sound of the screaming single engine are.

I have heard mentioned (in here) that learning to fly is not expensive.
It is where I live (in New York), but because of my eyes I know that I
wont be able to pass any physical exams for my PPL. So my only choices
are to do what I did when I was younger. Sit on the closest place to an
end of the runway and watch, or sit in a chair and fly on FS9 and dream.
Some or actually most of us on alt.games.microsoft.flight-sim try to learn
and experience why and how about aviation. But we do know its not real
life. Learning to fly isnt just controlling the plane, but being able to
handle all the other situations that can happen. Control Stalls, engine
out, using the radios, plotting routes with weather patterns, worrying
which part is going to fail next and how long the plane will be out of
commission waiting for the parts etc. But the most I feel is what we are
really not experiencing and no matter how hard we try our little corner of
the FS world wont let us. That is looking out the window and seeing this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...a/IMG_0342.jpg

Yup, on approach to landing on that big piece of Glacier. The Beaver had
skies.

enough said.

Mark G
Not4wood


"John Ward" wrote in message
...
Hi Not4wood,

"... you have ****ed off too many of them and NO ONE wants to help
you. ..."

I'll try though, just this once.

If Mxsmanic has "calmed down", as you put it, or feels differently
about things these days (and, I must say, I perceived the same thing),
and wants to participate in the n/g, as all the rest of us do, then one
thing he could do is change his moniker, and start afresh, safe in the
knowledge that everyone would have the good grace not to trace him (even
though, no matter what anyone calls themselves, you get to be able to
identify people by their posts, I reckon...).

Then, he would get a whole different reception...

Just a thought, but, hey, I've been wrong before, mate!

Regards,
John Ward


"Not4wood" wrote in message
news:r4eEh.3727$iF.3506@trndny03...
Again, I'll have to explain things to MXS:

Side note: Way too many of the members of this great Usenet group agmfs
have put you in there kill files and wont see this. I am crossposting
this for the benefit of the RL Pilots who we have heard that you have
****ed off as well. I never intentionally cross post until now where I
feel I have to inform the RL counterpart to this group about the latest
events..

You've calm down lately and that is a good thing. Sorry to have to tell
you this but you have annoyed way too many people with your arrogant
quotes and self righteous attitude. Believing yourself to be an expert
and tell people that you know something when you dont is arrogant. When
you dont do something in RL and then become an expert because you see it
printed by somebody else and take credit for it. Now, thats arrogant.
When, this group starts to hear your ****ing people off in the RL Pilots
Group because you feel a need to try to be on there level of knowledge,
skill and experience. By arguing with them the things you've picked up
in here and making the mistake that this is real life and then going
back to them and arguing the point. Thats NOT arrogant. Thats just
plain stupid. The Real Life Pilots who fly RL planes see that you do
nothing, learn nothing and experience nothing but feel you have to tell
them who are the real experienced people in the skies what they should
know and do. That is ARROGANT!

First, there are plenty of 747 Virtual Pilots here and good ones to I
might add. The problem is you have ****ed off too many of them and NO
ONE wants to help you. Get it, you've come to that point in time that
now of all things you need this group to help you after you ****ed off
just about everyone.

Now do you understand? Some of us have warned you including me. Now
the truth hurts, but you will probably rationalize your grave mistake so
you wont fully understand the implications of what you've done. Good
luck to you, where ever you go.

Pushes his chair back, and stands. Waits for a second and then bows.
Now turns and walks off into the Sunset to get his first cup of Jo this
morning.

Not4wood




"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
...
BT writes:

That's how it is in real airplanes.

Good; I like realism. But is there any technique to finding the right
throttle setting? The 747 seems particularly prone to this (as
compared to a
737).

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