Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
Most of us on here, as bcrosier has said, were just like you at one point (
except I was like war-type person) and
I sure do wish that I had had a resource such as APC to ask questions and get answers from knowledgable folks who have been where I want to be. I had to spend a long time in lines at the airshows to get a quick question in before being moved on along to the next line.
1) I knew there was something suspicious about you!
2) Isn't that the truth. I don't know whether I would have done anything different if I'd had the input, but I'd like to think I would have done at least a few things differently. It keeps going back to the fact that we've had a map-shift in this industry since my peers and I graduated and now. Those who started out back in the 1990's or earlier are somewhat stuck (don't get started SkyHigh
). What amazes me is the number of people even today who don't see how radically the industry has changed in the last 10-15 years, and still plan as if it were the industry of 20+ years ago despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
I know about the retirement numbers; who knows, maybe this time there really will be that pilot shortage predicted in 2000, and the 1990's, and the 1980's, and the 1970's... and probably in 1903.
In the words of Wayne from
Wayne's World: "Yeah, and monkeys might fly out of my butt."
But maybe I'll be wrong...
Of course then there is the article in IEEE Journal about passenger UAV's eventually overcoming public resistance and technological issues... (but that's a WHOLE different topic)