From: utzoo!decvax!cca!csin!cjh@CCA-UNIX@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.aviation Title: Re: re WSJ articles Article-I.D.: sri-unix.2498 Posted: Fri Aug 6 08:21:32 1982 Received: Sun Aug 8 08:19:39 1982 In response to your message of Fri Aug 6 02:14:01 1982: Sorry; I have a pretty substantial experience of pilots, albeit somewhat dated (mid 70's---do you really think that pilots have changed substantially in that period? My contacts and the literature suggest that they haven't, which is one of the reasons I dropped various subscriptions). Half of the problem, admittedly, may be not that the bulk of pilots are inconsiderate about their own actions but that they commonly are reluctant to lambaste the arguably fewer careless ones (cf. the "ragged individualism" I mentioned earlier); the action a few years ago against the proposal to require large underwing numbers on light planes (and pushing to allow ridiculously tiny numbers on the sides) is an example of this. But this is secondary to the arguments about the original article, the thrust of which was that private pilots are falling out of the sky in substantial numbers (and causing a fair amount of trouble for the rest of the world when they do?). I still haven't seen anything to refute this. After all, the article didn't even touch the explosive light-plane issues, such as user fees.