Originally Posted by SkyHigh
I hold airline pilots in what I consider to be a realistic and balanced regard. They are not supermen or hero's. They will not solve world hunger or cure cancer. Their skills are not rare or unique. The job does not require any unusual mental abilities or education. They operate a complex machine on such a regular frequency that it reduces the operators to human automatons. You must be in your 20's to still hold such fantasies so I will not go on.
Thank you SkyHigh for saying this. I just finished my second class in ground school. Tonight, it was about carburetor heat, atmospheric principles, the horrible things that can happen to you if you make altimeter errors, density altitude, more altimeter mumbo jumbo, parasitic drag and this fella Bernoulli. I thought I was toast! But you have given me hope. I'm not going to give up. If my friend Browntail can make it, I'd like to think I can, too.
