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From: rah@netcom.com (Richard Hyde)
Subject: Re: Don't Do This! LONGGGGG
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HLAviation (hlaviation@aol.com) wrote:

: What flying has been raised to the level of wizardry now?  I taught myself to
: fly in an Eiper Qicksilver long before these craft were regulated 
: and the "fire
: breathing dragon" didn't snatch me from the sky. 

I liked the story :-)  That said, I'll add my $.02.  Apologies for
referring to you in the third person, Steven, but this isn't really
about you specifically.

IMHO, being cocky isn't necessarily bad. Many aviators, especially
young ones, seem to be somewhat cocky about their accomplishments
and skill.  If they have, or think they have, *real* skill, they can
be really cocky.

Confident, sure people often learn faster and may go further than the
timid.  

The other side of the coin is that the accident reports are just chock
full of such people.  We don't know on which side of the line Steven
lives.  What he doesn't yet realize is that everyone who replied to
his posts are concerned about his safety.  If we wern't concerned,
we wouldn't post.

Are we validly concerned, who knows?  From his writing style, many
of us think so, but writing is not flying.  Perhaps we should
be glad he is a pilot and not an aspiring author!  :-)

We don't know Steven personally.  I suspect many of us are rubbed the
wrong way because a) he is a student with little experience, and b)
he toots his own horn about how good he is.  Most of us, I think,
prefer the individual who quietly demonstrates great skill to the
one who noisily claims it.

There are identified risk factors in pilot attitude... which I was
about to list...

Hmmm...  Hey, Steven - do you want to make an impression on the group?
Why don't YOU look up and post those risk factors?

You say that you want to learn about this art?  Attitude is just
as important as skill when it comes to making a great pilot. There
is not one among us who has not been tempted by one of the factors

Looking up the risk factors would be a great excercise for you, and
a welcome refresher for the rest of us.  How about it?

I'll just add one more comment.  Your instructor may know a lot about
flying, but he knows nothing about usenet.  Don't
let him turn you off participating in the group because *he* thinks
we're vultures.  We all have different writing styles, different
attitudes, and different personalities.  

It would be worth your while to consider each post to be by someone
with something to share with you and a genuine concern for your
training and safety.

If you don't like what you hear, first do two things:  One, re-read
your own post to see if it could have been interpreted in a way other
than you intended, and two, make an honest attempt to see if the poster
is making a valid point that you simply don't want to hear.  After
that, feel free to throw it away  :-)

Cheers,

Rick

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