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Liam Finley wrote:
Better to recruit one good pilot than ten Lennies who wash out and then spend the rest of their lives whining about it. These are the days of safe web browsing. Reading about it and viewing photos on the web is very enjoyable itself, why bother learning to fly? Food 4 thought. gill www.gillcouto.com |
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"Gill Couto" wrote in message
news:NuNmc.90908$Qy.42435@fed1read04... These are the days of safe web browsing. Reading about it and viewing photos on the web is very enjoyable itself, why bother learning to fly? Food 4 thought. gill www.gillcouto.com I have only 2 reasons --the sense of adventure when I turn my back on my home field and head out on course --the sense of accomplishment when I'm on final glide OK, there's more --giggling at the improbability of climbing at 13 kts in a motorless aircraft --the view --the brain flush of fully concentrating on the task at hand with not another thought in my mind --soaring w/hawks and turkey vultures lots more. But if browsing the web works for you, stick with it. Looks like we've got our first really good weekend coming up. Yipee! Brent |
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At 15:12 07 May 2004, Gill Couto wrote:
Liam Finley wrote: Better to recruit one good pilot than ten Lennies who wash out and then spend the rest of their lives whining about it. These are the days of safe web browsing. Reading about it and viewing photos on the web is very enjoyable itself, why bother learning to fly? Food 4 thought. gill www.gillcouto.com Gill, you could say the same thing about food and sex. Those are both dangerous. |
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Gill Couto wrote:
viewing photos on the web is very enjoyable itself, why bother learning to fly? Food 4 thought. Touche' Just because the numbers of pilots, aircraft, SSA members or tows declines, this may not mean much if there are many more people enjoying the sport vicariously. Makes "representatives of the sport" all that much more meaningful... :P -- ------------+ Mark Boyd Avenal, California, USA |
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In article 409c7e66$1@darkstar, Mark James Boyd
writes Gill Couto wrote: viewing photos on the web is very enjoyable itself, why bother learning to fly? Food 4 thought. Touche' Just because the numbers of pilots, aircraft, SSA members or tows declines, this may not mean much if there are many more people enjoying the sport vicariously. You mean, like reading a porno mag instead of doing something real? -- Mike Lindsay |
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Mike Lindsay wrote:
In article 409c7e66$1@darkstar, Mark James Boyd writes Gill Couto wrote: viewing photos on the web is very enjoyable itself, why bother learning to fly? Food 4 thought. Touche' Just because the numbers of pilots, aircraft, SSA members or tows declines, this may not mean much if there are many more people enjoying the sport vicariously. You mean, like reading a porno mag instead of doing something real? What do you read in a porn mag? gill www.gillcouto.com/hg |
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Mike Lindsay wrote:
In article 409c7e66$1@darkstar, Mark James Boyd writes Gill Couto wrote: viewing photos on the web is very enjoyable itself, why bother learning to fly? Food 4 thought. Touche' Just because the numbers of pilots, aircraft, SSA members or tows declines, this may not mean much if there are many more people enjoying the sport vicariously. You mean, like reading a porno mag instead of doing something real? No. I think he means *preferring* the magazine over the real thing. Sort of like the PC flight simulators. There are legions of dedicated "simmers" who will never sit at the controls of a real aircraft. I've bought several versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator in the hope that a better version will spark my interest. So far, they bore me to tears. Tony V http://home .comcast.net/~verhulst/SOARING |
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Yeah well when you got no chance to fly an Airbus, an Learjet, or an F-16,
to name a few, some sims might spark your interest.That's it if you're interested in flying and computer games, some people don't like computers. That's ok with me. I fly gliders (as a matter of fact I prefer flying gliders to sims, believe or not) but I'm also a big fan of Falcon 4.0, an F16 'hardcore' sim. IMHO soaring could be declining because it's expensive (more expensive than other popular activities) and more important, it is a time consuming activitie. Not an inmediate gratification activitie, requires investment in both money AND time, and if you don't have a passion for flying to begin with, it will not catch you. All the people I've flown with liked the experience but only who came decided to get involved with flying behorehand actually stayed in and got their licence. And of those, not all of them continued soaring after that. In Spain at least, my personal impression is that soaring is growing. It is becoming available to that pool of people with deep interest in aviation, not that we are convincing anyone. For my part, at least, I don't have a great interest in turning soaring into a mass sports, like skying has become. Just keep it open and accessible for everybody (I mean, no elite attitude), and people with real interest will get in. The ocassional pilot can be more of a hazard than a contribution to the sport, in my opinion. Good flying! Jose M. Alvarez ASW-24 I've bought several versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator in the hope that a better version will spark my interest. So far, they bore me to tears. Tony V http://home .comcast.net/~verhulst/SOARING |
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In article ,
Tony Verhulst wrote: I've bought several versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator in the hope that a better version will spark my interest. So far, they bore me to tears. Yeah, well that's possibly because it's crap! MS Flight Sim is now a great *scenery* simulator, and ever since the days of 8 MHz Macs (maybe even earlier) it's been pretty decent for practising IFR using AH and VOR and ADF. But it's still got rubbish physics. X-Plane is a much better simulator, and actually feels quite real (and you can get some pretty good glider models for it, from http://www.x-plane.org/Aircraft/). It's a good enough sim that several real companies use it for pilot training and design evaluation for aircraft they are designing. With the right add-on hardware, it's also FAA approved for logging simulator time. Not bad for a $49.50 program. In older programs, I found the Mac-only A-10 Attack! to feel *very* realistic to fly -- of course I don't know what an A-10 feels like to fly, but it felt like it *could* be a real aircraft (and I *have* been at the controls of kinda similar size aircraft, such as the Harvard/Texan). It also had excellent emulation of the interaction of the landing gear and struts with the ground. I'm told the authors (Graphic Simulations) actually make high end simulations for the military as well as games. There are probably some good PC simulators, too, but I don't know what they would be -- the vast majority have very little to do with real aircraft, whether because the programmers didn't know how (probably), or because their customers (like the Sep11 pilots) didn't care about takeoffs or landings, I don't know. -- Bruce |
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In general, simulators of any sort are not very much fun unless they
allow you to blow stuff up. MS Flight sim does not let you blow stuff up, so it is pretty lame. |
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