Jay Maynard wrote:
I've switched over almost entirely to Vista [...] and like it.
Just as you like to drive a Cessna spam can, too, because you haven't
flown a real airplane yet. (Such as a Yak 52, Extra 300, Cap 232, Pitts
or the like.)

Actually, he's got two airplanes, a Piper Pathfinder and an Ercoupe.

I wouldn't mind flying the "real airplanes" you list, but I've got no
interest at all in aerobatics: I get motion sickness with any significant
positive or negative G.

There's more to real aviation than aerobatics.


I was with an instructor once who wanted to show me "how to turn around really
quickly". His maneuver was a skidded turn.

Anybody can jerk an airplane around the sky with the thought of inducing G. I
think it takes more skill to fly smoothly. My remarks are aimed at the duffers
among us (the yank and bank crowd); not the folks who actually practice
aerobatics to perfect their maneuvers.

Ask a passenger who the best pilot is and they'll say it was the one who made
the best landing... even if it ended up at the local USAF base instead of the
adjacent civilian airport. At least they'll say that until they realize they're
in the wrong place. G



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Mortimer Schnerd, RN
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