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On Feb 4, 11:57 pm, Mike Ash wrote:
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"Robert M. Gary" wrote:

On Feb 4, 3:12 pm, Mike Ash wrote:

Well, different folks like different things. Our friend here probably
really does get 95% of the fun from simulation as he would get in a
real
airplane, so staying home and simming makes more sense than working
to
pay for fuel and aircraft rental.

For us, where that number is more like 1%, spending so much time
simming
when we could put that effort into real flying is silly.

I don't think he can say he gets 95% of the fun from siming until he
tries flying.

I agree that he shouldn't be making this claim until he's tried it, but
given his personality, it wouldn't surprise me if he were right on this
point. He seems so determined not to extract any unnecessary enjoyment
out of life that I would wager there's a good chance that the sublime
qualities of flight would figuratively go right over his head.

--
Mike Ash
Radio Free Earth
Broadcasting from our climate-controlled studios deep inside the Moon

You want not to forget he gets lots of attention here, and that
attention is from people who for the most part are living real lives
and sometimes fly real airplanes. His chances of engaging an MD or
business executive in casual conversation in real life are minimal,
and here he he gets the opportunity -- BECAUSE WE GIVE IT TO HIM -to
act as a peer, or better, to the group. That is his payoff.

And, by all appearances, he is paid handsomely indeed!

(Presuming that he is not an elaborately created sock puppet of a
researcher...)