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  #31  
Old July 26th 12, 12:59 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
george152
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Mxsmanic wrote:
Martin Hotze writes:

... and you did all the best to help destroy the climate in this group.


I'm afraid not. It was the kiddies that drove people out of the group, and I'm
not a kid.


Riiiight !
  #32  
Old July 26th 12, 02:29 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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On 7/24/2012 11:02 PM, Mxsmanic wrote:
John Clear writes:

I wouldn't call an Mx an old timer. He was only around for the last
bit of the life of this group.


If you mean me, I've been posting to this group for a decade.


Newcomer, then. I'm in the middle of my third decade, in this and the
predecessor groups such as misc.aviation.

Ron Wanttaja
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Old July 30th 12, 07:05 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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On Jul 25, 4:20*pm, Mxsmanic wrote:

I'm afraid not. It was the kiddies that drove people out of the group, and I'm
not a kid.


You haven't changed one bit in that decade. Herein lies your problem,
Mxsmanic. You claim to know a lot about aviation and flying, but your
knowlege is either 1.) Wrong (which you won't admit to), or, 2.)
Biased upon an artificial world of a simulator because you have never
flown a real airplane. Therefore, any "rational discussion" as you
like to put it, is practically invalid because you haven't used it in
the real world of actually flying airplanes. You may claim that it
does not matter, as you have in the past, but it matters a whole lot.

I often get this at work. My main career is that of an aircraft
structures and sheetmetal mechanic, A&P. I did really well in A&P
school not too long ago (3.8 GPA, I think) so I have a lot of "book
knowlege" when I go to work. But, within an hour of receiving a new
job I've never done before, or working with a non-A&P with lots of
experience and really good at his job, I realize my book knowlege
really means very, very little in the "real world."

Happy Flying!

Ricky
CFII, Multi, Balloon, A&P
Soon, I hope! ATP, Ultralight, Glider, Gas Balloon, IA

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Old July 31st 12, 07:40 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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On Monday, July 30, 2012 1:05:29 PM UTC-5, Ricky wrote:

You haven't changed one bit in that decade. Herein lies your problem,

Mxsmanic. You claim to know a lot about aviation and flying, but your

knowlege is either 1.) Wrong (which you won't admit to), or, 2.)

Biased upon an artificial world of a simulator because you have never

flown a real airplane.


SNIP

Ricky

CFII, Multi, Balloon, A&P

Soon, I hope! ATP, Ultralight, Glider, Gas Balloon, IA


Best response I've seen in this group in probably a decade :-)

To answer your question, yep, still lurk, my 10 year tenor flying has come to a close, sold my Sundowner about 2 years ago, rented for a year, cost didn't justify the means so I moved on to different hobbies. Only flying I am doing outside commercial flights is putting up aviation randoms on my You Tube channel as I have been having fun looking back at my aviation accomplishments (more than Mx can ever say he has done in real world flying).

My first post was on a 2400 baud modem and 4 Mhz Packard Bell computer so I am probably right up there with the older timers of this group.

Ricky, I sure hope you go for that glider rating. I didn't follow through but the 20+ flights I did puts power flying in a whole new dimension that in the long run will make you just that much better a pilot after soaring (if you don't know this already LOL)

Only reason I didn't follow through is the club flies on days like today, 100F, heat index of 112 and the Blanick is one of the best places to experience a greenhouse effect :-) Kitchen was too hot, so I bailed.
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Old August 1st 12, 12:46 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Ricky writes:

You haven't changed one bit in that decade. Herein lies your problem,
Mxsmanic.


If you are interested in talking about me, join my fan club and worship me
there. This group is not the place for it.
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Old August 2nd 12, 10:45 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Morgans writes:

And we still have people responding to MX. Any response to his posts assure
his continued presence, which will surely result in the same ending as last
time. Complete desolation, as posters run to the door.

Anything short of complete shunning is not enough. MX must be as b*ss was,
that his name will not be spoken, anytime.


Replying to me is no worse than talking about me for paragraphs at a time, as
you are.

If you want to join my fan club and worship me, you are welcome to do so.
However, this group is neither my fan club nor your therapy session, so please
try to stick to aviation.
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Old August 3rd 12, 04:12 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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On 2012-07-24, Vaughn wrote:
I recently bought the new $199.00 Google Nexus7 8" pad. It is a
candidate to replace the Ipad that I have been flying with. So far, I
have confirmed that (unlike my Ipad) it has an excellent GPS built in.


The iPad 3 seems to have an excellent GPS. At least SkyDemon works from
an aisle seat on a Boeing 777 on an iPad 3.

Tablets in general will be the death knell for Garmin and their ilk
unless the dedicated aviation GPS makers really up their game. A tablet
with SkyDemon is so much better than anything I've used in dedicated
handheld GPS form, it's less expensive even with the subscription, and
it can also be used for other things too.

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Old August 4th 12, 01:06 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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On Thu, 02 Aug 2012 07:56:25 -0700, Bug Dout
wrote:

"Morgans" writes:

"Ron Wanttaja" wrote

I'm still about, too... got the patch on my camera bag.

Ron Wanttaja



What's needed are Usenet users who know how to use the filtering
mechanism in their reader. Then they need depend only on themselves to
avoid whoever and whatever they want.


Hey, Easter Sh!# we missed you at Honeck's Wednesday night party in
OSH this year. Ever coming back?

Jim
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Old August 4th 12, 04:22 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Vaughn writes:

I recently bought the new $199.00 Google Nexus7 8" pad. It is a
candidate to replace the Ipad that I have been flying with. So far, I
have confirmed that (unlike my Ipad) it has an excellent GPS built
in.


Sounds like your iPad is WiFi only, those models don't have a
GPS. Models with 3G/4G cell radios have GPS (apparently the GPS/cell
radio are on the same chipset and aren't manufactured separately)
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Old August 4th 12, 06:13 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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On 8/4/2012 11:22 AM, Bug Dout wrote:

Sounds like your iPad is WiFi only, those models don't have a
GPS. Models with 3G/4G cell radios have GPS (apparently the GPS/cell
radio are on the same chipset and aren't manufactured separately)


That is exactly correct. I use the "Bad Elf" GPS. That said, I don't
hear a lot of enthusiasm for the GPS installed in the 3G/4G IPads. Many
of those folks use various outboard GPSs also for aviation apps.

Vaughn
 




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