Art Kramer wrote:
Mike Marron wrote:

Careful now Art, you're about to spew...

No spewing. :Le's review the bidding.

OK, let's...

You insulted navigitors and bombardiers by reffering to them
as "just" navigators and bombardiers,

Wrongo. Dudley hit the nail squarely on the head when he said you
need to read these threads more carefully before responding. Once
again, here is exactly what I wrote:



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You're choosing to focus on aspects that YOU happen to be familiar
with (e.g: navigation and bombing) but pilots have to know a lot more
"stuff" than just how to navigate and drop bombs.

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Note that I merely pointed out that pilots have to know more
than "just" how to NAVIGATE and DROP BOMBS. In other words,
the word "just" was being used as an adverb to modify the act
of -navigating- and -bomb dropping- *not* as an adjective
describing "navigators and bombadiers" in a negative manner.

Then you insulted me for only talking about those things in which
I had experience.

Wrong again.

You said:

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There has been number of comments on how much more complicated
things are now as compared to WW II. But I dont k now about that.
When I talk to guys at Nellis about navigation and bombing it all
seems electronic and automatic now. It was far from that back then.
You had to understand evrything and work through problems with
laborious pencil and paper procedures and an error could spell
disaster. Seems a lot simpler now than it was back then. Take GPS
as one of many cases in point.

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To which I responded:


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GPS navigation is wonderful, but we are just now beginning to realize
the many downsides of GPS such as tunnel vision, degraded situational
awareness, increased airspace incursions, more heads-down flying,
more buttons and more confusion.

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Exactly where in the paragraph above did I "insult" you above for only
talking about those things in which you had experience? For such a
rootin' tootin' bombadier, your vines sure do have tender grapes, huh?


When I objected your answer was to attack my formating skills.

Wrong again. I attacked your argument that things nowadays aren't
as complicated as they were back in your day. The attack on your
formatting (not to mention your reading comprehension) skills came
later, and rightly so.

And it isn't my fault that you have no combat experience.

Congratulations. That's the first thing you've said in this entire
thread that isn't wrong.

That is your prooblem not mine.

Er um, like everyone else I have my fair share of problems but I don't
consider having "no combat experience" as one of 'em. Having had
one warrior in the family is more than enough for me, thank you.

Now who is the problem?

You are. But if you learn how to properly snip and format your
responses and read your threads more closely I'm confident that
you can overcome your problems.

Now let's agree to have nothing to do with one another from here on.
OK?

Quite frankly, I couldn't care less whether or not you have nothing to
do with me from here on. However, besides learning how to properly
format your postings and read your threads more carefully, you need
to learn one other thing about Usenet.

Not unlike the nut who stands up on his soapbox with bullhorn in hand
in the middle of the town square espousing his beliefs to one and all,
you are free to do the same here on RAM. However, others are free
to walk up to you and your bullhorn and tell you politely, yet flat
out that you're full of ****.

In other words, normally I ignore you but I reserve the right to
disagree with you at any time when you post something that I am
convinced is wrong. For example, your argument that things nowadays
aren't as complicated as they were back in your day.

-Mike Marron