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"Dennis Johnson" wrote: If a person is sitting in front of an instrument panel manipulating controls whose performance is based on aerodynamic principles, that's flying. It might be flying a simulator, but it's still flying. If your butt isn't in the airplane, you aren't flying. Operating a sim isn't flying Operating an RC plane isn't flying (the RC is flying but you aren't) -- Bob Noel Looking for a sig the lawyers will hate |
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Bob Noel wrote:
In article , "Dennis Johnson" wrote: If a person is sitting in front of an instrument panel manipulating controls whose performance is based on aerodynamic principles, that's flying. It might be flying a simulator, but it's still flying. If your butt isn't in the airplane, you aren't flying. Interesting article in this week Av Week about the operator of an UAV not having his/her butt in the tin. Didn't we really learn the reasonable fear of flying during our presolo training and especially on our first solo flight? (something MXmaniac wouldn't have a clue about) |
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Bob Noel writes:
If your butt isn't in the airplane, you aren't flying. So when I sat in the cockpit of a 747, I was flying? Flying is in the mind and heart, not in the air. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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Mxsmanic wrote:
Bob Noel writes: If your butt isn't in the airplane, you aren't flying. So when I sat in the cockpit of a 747, I was flying? Flying is in the mind and heart, not in the air. Your retorts are hostile and absurd on their face. I guess sex is in the mind and the hear, and not with the woman (or man, as the case may be.) |
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