Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucsfcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!rl 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 Lines: 22 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