Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site bcsaic.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!bcsaic!ted From: ted@bcsaic.UUCP (ted jardine) Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Re: Advice on obtaining pilot's license Message-ID: <235@bcsaic.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 17:28:20 EDT Article-I.D.: bcsaic.235 Posted: Fri Aug 23 17:28:20 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 13:19:39 EDT References: <360@tektools.UUCP> <489@cepu.UUCP> <434@sdchema.sdchema.UUCP> Reply-To: ted@bcsaic.UUCP (ted jardine) Distribution: net Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle Lines: 19 Summary: In article <434@sdchema.sdchema.UUCP> jpg@sdchema.UUCP (Jerry Greenberg) writes: > I will confess why despite my interest in aviation I haven't taken lessons.> It can be summed up in two words: "stall" and "spin". > Jerry Greenberg No! No!! NO!!! That requires at least four words: STALL, SPIN, CRASH, and BURN!!!! (Let's be serious, so I must here put the tongue in cheek, Yes?!) I can understand people who are apprehensive, and those who may be fearful, but the only thing dangerous about aviation is the person (and thankfully there are very few of them) who ceases to pay attention to detail and/or flies other than ahead of the airplane. The ultimate in a safe and efficient landing is made so that the aircraft stalls just as the wheels or pontoons touch the landing surface. And as for spin, that's something that the propeller or the turbine blades do all the time. TJ (with Amazing Grace) The Piper (aka Ted Jardine) Boeing Artificial Intelligence Center ...uw-beaver!uw-june!bcsaic!ted