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Offline Golfer

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Re: Prop...
« Reply #30 on: November 10, 2011, 11:18:17 PM »
Quote from: MachFly on November 10, 2011, 11:01:59 PM
I wont forger the basics to flying a basic airplane, the computers on the 42 help with it's complex systems which most other GA aircraft don't have. If I will forget something about flying a basic aircraft than I wont fly it until I'll be proficient to fly it again. I don't need to stay proficient in an airplane that I don't fly, if I will have to fly it I'll take a lesson or two in it and be proficient again.


So now you fly that taildagger just to stay proficient in it? If you enjoy it I understand, but flying something just for the sake of being proficient is a waist of time & money.

Don't take this as being snooty but you haven't flown anything with a complex system. I could type a much more thoughtful response but it's late, I'm on my phone and I'm off to bed.

Your last few sentences couldn't be more wrong, either.  You're really showing a significant lack of understanding and some pretty hazardous attitudes that should be given more consideration.
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« Reply #31 on: November 10, 2011, 11:21:31 PM »
All I see is a pilot who enjoys flying for flying, a pilot who is full of himself and 'fly it right or don't fly at all!', and a pilot who has an incredible amount of experience and experiences, all of which are in a pointless internet argument for no good reason.

I give up.

I don't want to be a pilot anymore.
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Offline Golfer

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« Reply #32 on: November 10, 2011, 11:26:43 PM »
I think you'll find the common thread is we all like what we do. It beats having a real job and speaking for myself my happy little world is a pretty darn good one.

Simple explanation:

Machfly has a few wayward thoughts and I'm not known for sugar coating my thoughts

If you or anyone else really truly wants to fly because you love it, you won't let anyone's opinion stop you.
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Re: Prop...
« Reply #33 on: November 10, 2011, 11:50:46 PM »
Quote from: Golfer on November 10, 2011, 11:18:17 PM
Don't take this as being snooty but you haven't flown anything with a complex system. I could type a much more thoughtful response but it's late, I'm on my phone and I'm off to bed.

Your last few sentences couldn't be more wrong, either.  You're really showing a significant lack of understanding and some pretty hazardous attitudes that should be given more consideration.

I don't know what you want me to tell you.
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Re: Prop...
« Reply #34 on: November 11, 2011, 12:26:39 AM »
Quote from: Golfer on November 10, 2011, 11:26:43 PM
If you or anyone else really truly wants to fly because you love it, you won't let anyone's opinion stop you.

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Re: Prop...
« Reply #35 on: November 11, 2011, 08:27:08 AM »
Quote from: EskimoJoe on November 10, 2011, 11:21:31 PM
I don't want to be a pilot anymore.

*singing*
I don't want to join the Air Force
I don't want to go to war
I'd rather hang around Piccadily Underground
Living on the earnings of a high class lady
I don't want to take it up the !@#%^&*
I don't want my body shot away
I'd rather be in England
In Merry f**%ing England
And fornicate my f*&%ing life away!

There's more but since we weren't allowed to sing it at the con (10 yrs ago yikes) I don't think Skuzzy wants it here either  :devil
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Re: Prop...
« Reply #36 on: November 11, 2011, 08:40:11 AM »
man to be either one of you guys  :x  If I had a pilots license I would fly anything and everything I could get checked out in.
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« Reply #37 on: November 11, 2011, 09:52:34 AM »
Quote from: MachFly on November 10, 2011, 11:50:46 PM
I don't know what you want me to tell you.

Perhaps it's a case of deciding to let people think you a fool rather than open your mouth and remove all doubt.

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Re: Prop...
« Reply #38 on: November 11, 2011, 11:18:01 AM »
Quote from: EskimoJoe on November 10, 2011, 11:21:31 PM
All I see is a pilot who enjoys flying for flying, a pilot who is full of himself and 'fly it right or don't fly at all!', and a pilot who has an incredible amount of experience and experiences, all of which are in a pointless internet argument for no good reason.

Eskimo Joe,

I have personally removed the mangled body of a friend from aircraft wreckage.  I have watched people die in an aircraft crash.  I have known several people who have died in aircraft crashes.

This isn't a pointless argument.

Perhaps Golfer and I just want to see MachFly around for a while.
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Re: Prop...
« Reply #39 on: November 11, 2011, 11:34:41 AM »
Machfly,

I was just in recurrent with the widow of a guy killed in a "basic GA airplane" as you've described. He was a Designated Examiner, had thousands of hours in type and wasn't doing anything overly risky when he ended up dead.

You'll be fine though, right?
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« Reply #40 on: November 11, 2011, 11:37:50 AM »
How did he crash?
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« Reply #41 on: November 11, 2011, 11:51:16 AM »
Into someone's living room.

Over 20,000 hours while doing a flight review with a 3,000 hour pilot.  I'm the middle of the day. In clear skies.
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« Reply #42 on: November 11, 2011, 12:01:57 PM »
Quote from: Golfer on November 11, 2011, 11:51:16 AM
Into someone's living room.

Over 20,000 hours while doing a flight review with a 3,000 hour pilot.  I'm the middle of the day. In clear skies.

Wow that's awful. Did they have an engine failure?
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Re: Prop...
« Reply #43 on: November 11, 2011, 12:08:17 PM »
Does it matter?  There were two.
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Offline MachFly

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« Reply #44 on: November 11, 2011, 09:25:02 PM »
Quote from: Golfer on November 11, 2011, 11:34:41 AM
Machfly,

I was just in recurrent with the widow of a guy killed in a "basic GA airplane" as you've described. He was a Designated Examiner, had thousands of hours in type and wasn't doing anything overly risky when he ended up dead.

You'll be fine though, right?

no one ever said it was safe

and what does this have to do with anything?
« Last Edit: November 11, 2011, 09:54:53 PM by MachFly »
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