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captjns , 04-08-2015 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Sideshow Bob

The wizard of smart mastermind class is the only growing sector of the economy...and unless they get caught on camera molesting a kid, they have lifetime tenure. They are untouchable no matter how incompetent.

This guy likely can't fly his way out of a wet paper bag with radar vectors, has never had any responsibility beyond the toy he flies and after looking back at some of his past writing efforts, I'm under-impressed with how he pays his bills.

On your way Pudknocker Pete, leave the flying to the real pilots and you can play pilot on "Flying Magazine".

I guess being his neighbor, you're are intimate with PG's flying, engineering and navigation skills, and qualifications. And your LNAV and VNAV skills must be impeccable

#92

cardiomd , 04-08-2015 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by 727C47

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he is a real pilot , not a dilettante, and I don't hold Harvard against him.

Neither do I. The students rejected from MIT have to go somewhere!

It was a poor article that I am pretty sure he regrets. Sideshow Bob remains a sideshow with strange extremist views. There are a lot of great pilots, both in academic and the non-academic spheres.

#93

Scraggly Heron , 04-11-2015 12:16 AM

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Unfortunately the article linked below has not garnered as much attention as previous opinion pieces, but at least there is something out there that reflects reality.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/10/op...g&pgtype=Blogs

#94

package puppy , 04-11-2015 01:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Sideshow Bob

What could we expect?

"Peter Garrison is an American journalist and amateur aircraft designer/builder. He was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1943, and received a BA in English from Harvard College in 1965."

Oh brother...an Ivy League, faculty lounge English major deep fried in envy and resentment who likely just assumed that Delta or United would hire him for his pedigree and brilliance as a second rate writer for a rag I stopped reading when I earned an instrument rating.

He's a miserable pudknocker not worthy of further consideration here...what a putz. If we're all lucky he'll run out of gas in his bug smasher out to sea and not hurt anyone else in the process.

Effin journalists, give them a pen and they're the world's foremost expert on everything! Show me a seniority list with his name on it and then, maybe then I'll read his column. I'm sure having a garden in his backyard somehow qualifies him to pass judgement on his neighbor, my uncle, who successfully farms 1,600 acres. Personally, I prefer not to pass judgement on a man until I walk a mile or two in his shoes. But hey, that's just me and another reason I'd never make it as a journalist.

#95

cardiomd , 04-11-2015 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Scraggly Heron

He did very well except the unnecessary analogy to "modern medicine." I have yet to use a robot in surgery. There are a few commercially available (da vinci system) but it is a really tiny, tiny niche that is not in widespread use at all. It is just a different type of problem. Apples and oranges. Perhaps he should have talked about decision support systems which is a closer analogy...

OTOH, even my little C182 has a full auto that I can enter a flight plan with altitude. Doesn't make the pilot obsolete.