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- From: aboyd@quantum.on.ca (Andrew Boyd)
- Subject: rec.aviation.flames
- Message-ID: <7cfrd9r@quantum.on.ca>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 14:58:21 GMT
- Organization: Quantum Software Systems
- References: <1992Dec16.032618.10440@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <lium16INN444@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> <1992Dec17.145735.11614@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec17.145735.11614@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- thughes@lonestar.utsa.edu (Toby . Hughes) writes:
-
- <entertaining mud-slinging deleted>
-
- >Larry Jewell once warned me about trying to be logical on USENET, and I
- >wouldn't listen. See ya!
-
- You have to have the proper attitude to read USENET. Treat it as a
- pedants convention, and you'll do well. If you treat every posting
- seriously, you'll go nuts. USENET, IMHO, has a very low signal-to-noise
- ratio ... there's a lot of crap here, but every once in a while, there
- will be a posting from someone (like you, toby) who really knows what's
- going on in a particular aviation specialty, which makes it all worthwhile.
-
- Gotta learn to filter out the crap. One thing I'm amazed at is how thin-
- skinned you are about this ... I would expect that someone (who is used to
- having people shoot at him) would pretty coolly laugh off criticism from
- some guy who might have 10 hours in a C-150. I sure do, and hardly anyone
- ever shoots at me :-)
-
- Reminds me of the time that I got mail from some people, whom I hope
- to god aren't licensed pilots, who claimed that during a normal flare,
- their production a/c center of lift moved forward past the center of
- gravity, and their tail quickly switched from producing downward lift
- to producing upward lift. Sure. Cheque's in the mail, too.
-
- What do you do with amateurs like that? Well, you try to educate them,
- and when they don't want to learn, you shrug your shoulders and move on.
-
- You don't get angry at the fumbling student pilots in the pattern, do
- you? Nope, you try to be tolerant, and hope that they will improve
- over time. Same thing here.
-
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