Loose Change - Part II

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Sentinel said:
Since there are no pilots in this forum I understand your incapablility to answer the question on flying into buildings.
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I will admit I AM NOT A PILOT, however, my father used to own and fly an old Piper Tri-Pacer. Nice little plane, anyhow. I would go along with him on many a flight. He would handle the take-offs and landings. Guess what, when cruising, guess who got to fly, yeap me, all at an age of 12. Kind of sounds familiar doesn’t it? Atta and crew focused on flying, not take offs and landing, go figure. Once in the air, keeping a plane airborne on the right course is damn easy. Dad would give me the compass heading, I would turn to that heading and keep it steady, went to many an airfield that way. Flash forward 20 years, add in hand held GPS and guess how easy it is to guide a plan now. But since you're not a pilot, I understand you inability to understand how easy it is to fly a plane when some one else handles the take-off.
 
JPK said:
Is it just me or have the recent crop of CT'ers been even less capable of intelligent debate then the previous bunch? Greggy put these guys to shame.
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Hey! I want a patch, or a cookie, or first pick of the litter or something - it was my post that shut him up!

(Not like I want him back. . . )
 
azazal said:
I will admit I AM NOT A PILOT, however, my father used to own and fly an old Piper Tri-Pacer. Nice little plane, anyhow. I would go along with him on many a flight. He would handle the take-offs and landings. Guess what, when cruising, guess who got to fly, yeap me, all at an age of 12. Kind of sounds familiar doesn’t it? Atta and crew focused on flying, not take offs and landing, go figure. Once in the air, keeping a plane airborne on the right course is damn easy. Dad would give me the compass heading, I would turn to that heading and keep it steady, went to many an airfield that way. Flash forward 20 years, add in hand held GPS and guess how easy it is to guide a plan now. But since you're not a pilot, I understand you inability to understand how easy it is to fly a plane when some one else handles the take-off.
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My dad was a pilot too, and sometimes let me fly the plane. Another time when I was in my teens a pilot buddy of mine let me fly his plane, and just by following the roads I managed to find my own house, a tiny two-story home in a suburban neighborhood -- no flying experience, no lessons, no nada. If it had been the WTC, which on a clear day you could see 100 miles away, I'd have had no problem slamming the plane into it, were I so included. The only difference here is size of plane. Give me even a modicum of training, and I bet it would have been a piece of cake.
 
Stellafane said:
Can you even believe you'd ever write such a sentence, never mind it actually being true??
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It is really very sad. Reading these threads reminds me of a game called Whack A Mole. They have this at arcades. A stuffed mole keeps popping up out of differant holes and you have to knock them on the head with a hammer. There is no end to it. CT'ers keep popping and making the same tired claims. Someone points out the error of their ways. The CT'er just makes another tired claim. Blather, rinse and repeat. Eventually that CT'er stomps off or commits suicide by mod. Before you know it, another popps up and makes exactly the same tired claim.
JPK
 
Stellafane said:
and just by following the roads I managed to find my own house,
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Known as an IFR pilot.

I follow roads.

I knew a guy like that who used a Gulf Road Map to navigate. It was great til it blew out the window one day.

I only took his planes one way - up to 7200'.
 
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Hutch said:
923 pages!!!! :jaw-dropp
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Wow, there really is nothing new under the sun. Interesting to see the same debate raging on different intellectual levels within different specializations -- over there they're deep into eutectic reactions :eye-poppi

It's getting pretty vicious, too. Lots of [rule8] and booted socks floating around like tumbleweeds.

*goes for popcorn*

Heads up/prediction: the next CT battleground will be sulfidation of the WTC steel.
 
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