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From: rl@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Robert Langridge%CGL)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Practical advice from those more experienced
Message-ID: <409@ucsfcgl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 10:48:08 EST
Article-I.D.: ucsfcgl.409
Posted: Fri Dec 14 10:48:08 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 18-Dec-84 03:29:17 EST
References: <1218@orca.UUCP> <159@gcc-opus.ARPA> <333@wnuxb.UUCP>
Reply-To: rl@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Bob Langridge)
Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
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Summary: 

In article <333@wnuxb.UUCP> djmolny@wnuxb.UUCP (DJ Molny) writes:
>
>The most important thing is to retain your sense of humility, and avoid
>overflying your abilities.  

Amen.  Should be on the placard of every aircraft we fly.

But then he quotes the old maxim:

>"There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots,
>but there are no old bold pilots."

There ARE indeed  "old bold pilots" (Yeager, Doolittle...), but their
abilities are hard to overfly.  To paraphrase Fitzgerald: "They are
different from you and I".
 
Bob Langridge				(UUCP: [...]!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!rl)
Computer Graphics Laboratory		(ARPA: rl@ucbvax  
926 Medical Sciences			          or
University of California		       langridge@sumex)
San Francisco
CA  94143