In rec.aviation.piloting Le Chaud Lapin wrote:
On Jun 20, 9:55?pm, Steve Hix
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On Jun 20, 12:15 pm, Le Chaud Lapin wrote stuff:

? Just a gimmick addict, I think you are. If you want to fly, fly. if
you want to take pictures or listen to music or do a lot of other
things that distract you from paying attention

That's my wife's job when we fly.

I'm too busy trying to stay ahead of the airplane, avoid traffic, and
get to where we're headed.

so that you don't
collide with other airplanes or get lost on a cross-country, then find
some other means of travel, like in an airliner.

When she gets her license, then I can take pictures.

I have heard a lot of pilots complain that they cannot enjoy the
scenery when they are PIC. The pilot I flew with said he liked for me
to take the controls because he could enjoy the scenery for a change.

It should be possible to have it both ways - "flying" as Dan calls it,
or sitting back and relaxing and enjoying the scenery, with more
advanced form of auto-pilot, with multiple cameras streaming entire
flight to 1TB hard disk, of course.

Pure fantasy.

Someone has to be looking out the window for the no radio, no transponder
and no flight following aircraft no matter how sophisticated the aircraft.

There is now way more realiable than a Mark I eyeball to detect a
typical no radio rag bag airplane.

--
Jim Pennino

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