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"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Viperdoc writes:

Actually, if you include all of the other NG's that he has poisoned, the
group that doesn't like him is actually very large.

It amounts to only a few dozen people, and there are tens of millions of
people on USENET.

The blustering, yappy little dogs are a very tiny minority on USENET, but they
make an incredible amount of noise. And if anyone poisons discussion on
USENET, they do.

But it's nowhere near millions of readers who see your yappy little dog droppings. Even
among the relatively few readers who frequent the same groups and blogs that you do, many
ignore or killfile you.

Nevertheless, for the sake of argument, granted that not everyone who reads you responds
to you. Care to document the ratio of criticisms to love letters for those who have
responded to you?

Even allowing for the effect that people are more likely to take the time to write a
complaint or criticism than offer agreement or a compliment, your fan club is hardly in
evidence here or in your other hang-outs. I think I saw one newbie here who naively took
one of your posts at face value a while ago, and one limited concurrence in another group.
Got any others?

"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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Mxsmanic wrote in
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Gig601XLBuilder writes:

OK, let me rephrase, It would be like you saying anything about the
taste of Coke having never in your life drinking anything but Pepsi.

Is that like making statements about flying airliners when one has
never flown anything but a single-engined tin-fan prop?

Nope, it's like only ever having eaten **** and claimng you know what
shinola tastes like.

Okay, but we now have credible evidence that he's probably done both.

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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John Mazor writes:

As long as you don't pretend that the mere act of puttering through the air in your
MSFS
makes you any kind of expert on actual flying, that's fine. Unfortunately, we have a
poster here who doesn't understand the difference.

Who here has claimed that flying a sim makes one an _expert_ in real flight?

You routinely make assertions that are couched in terms of having expertise in aspects of
flying. Backing off later by describing them as "opinions" doesn't change that fact.

On Dec 14, 4:49 pm, Mxsmanic wrote:

There was a military version of the aircraft. I'm still trying to find out if
it was ever equipped with ejection seats. If not, I presume the ejection seat
was a joke of the model developers. You don't seem to know the answer, but
perhaps someone else does.

At the risk of being an enabler...

The only custom-built military version of the Baron was the T-42A
Cochise, used by the U.S. and Turkey. Everyone else who used it
(mostly sundry African nations) seems to have bought off the shelf
from Beech. A quick look at pretty much any photo of the T-42 reveals
that it is equipped with regular seats, the only special feature of
which appears to be upholstery.

How would you eject from a Baron anyway? Explosive panels directly
over your head? That ought to be memorable, given the available
headroom- real once in a lifetime experience.

-JTD

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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news.verizon.net writes:

No your basis for judgment is not as valid as anyone else's. You have no
direct knowledge of one of the points of comparison, there for your judgment
is without basis.

As I've said, learning that all opinions are equal takes time. Some learn the
easy way, and some learn the hard way.

For someone who has spent so much time with computer programs, your grasp of logic is
remarkably deficient. A simple exercise in set theory can disprove that all opinions are
equal. That sounds more like something they use to offer encouragement to kids who ride
the short bus:

"Of course your drawing of a horse is as good as anyone else's, Anthony! Just because it
has five legs, two tails, is as tall as the Eiffel Tower next to it, and no one has ever
seen a horse with a purple head and green body, doesn't mean that it's not as good as any
of the horse drawings you see in your art book. Don't let those mean old kids on the
playground tell you any different!"

"B A R R Y" wrote

With it pointed out, you're absolutely right. Another touch aspect is
the yoke feedback and occasional flutters and vibrations.

I'm usually responsible for the smells... G

That's a ****ty thing to say about someone, especially about yourself! g
--
Jim in NC

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Why do people have so
much difficulty accepting viewpoints other than their own?

Because you posit your opinions as though they had factual support equal to those of
people who actually know WTF they're talking about. For example, your ignorant comment
about extending the airline pilot age to 65:

But doesn't this mean that he'll ultimately fly longer? He may not be
thrilled over the short term, but it means five extra years at the peak of his
career.

Jeff Dougherty writes:

The only custom-built military version of the Baron was the T-42A
Cochise, used by the U.S. and Turkey. Everyone else who used it
(mostly sundry African nations) seems to have bought off the shelf
from Beech. A quick look at pretty much any photo of the T-42 reveals
that it is equipped with regular seats, the only special feature of
which appears to be upholstery.

I didn't think it very likely.

How would you eject from a Baron anyway? Explosive panels directly
over your head?

Presumably. The canopies of fighter jets are probably stronger than the roof
over the head of the pilot in a Baron, so if those canopies can be blown clear
or sliced, so can the roof of the Baron.

John Mazor writes:

For someone who has spent so much time with computer programs, your grasp of logic is
remarkably deficient. A simple exercise in set theory can disprove that all opinions are
equal.

Opinions are not abstract mathematical entities.

Ron writes:

It doesn't matter. Flying is aviating in the air no matter what your
aircraft is.

No, sorry, it's apples and oranges. Flying a tin can doesn't qualify you to
fly a fighter jet or airliner. Flying a fighter jet doesn't qualify you to
fly an airliner or tin can. And so on.