From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017102913325227123-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > I've only flown a few times, am not a pilot, don't even play on one tv.   
      
   Piloting the plane is the most fun part about flying!!!   
      
   > That said, I do know little about reality.  What I was referring to in   
   > calling small planes fragile were the little wing over Cessna's and such.   
   > As in, don't fly these in ice. Or a thunderstorm.   
      
   That's true of any aircraft depending only on how well equipped it is to to   
   deal with various conditions....deicing system and such, and the pilots of   
   even the biggest jets make it a point not to fly into severe weather.   
      
   > Or try to take them off from a high altitude field on a hot day. Or put   
   > too much weight in one.   
      
   That's a density altitude situation - high, hot, humid, and heavy all   
   combine to making getting off the ground anywhere from a challenge, to   
   practically impossible, which is why computations regarding all those   
   factors is always SOP before any takeoff, or landing.   
      
   > That sort of thing.  Sure, if the load is just a pilot, and all you plan   
   > on doing is flying around sight seeing on nice clear days, have at it.   
   > You might survive that.   
      
   All of that can be, Should be, and fortunately usually is accurately   
   calculated beforehand.   
      
   > But night, or clouds or big storms or ice or snow or high altitude   
   > takeoffs or landings, different story.  For those you need the IFR capable   
   > twin turbos doctors seem to like.  They crash those just as often, due to   
   > not really being very well trained.  They're doctors, not professional   
   > pilots.   
      
   Idiots who get behind the wheel to drive a car is one thing...but being like   
   that at the controls of an aircraft would almost always end in fatal   
   results. Flying Requires Skill, which is why pilots are always   
   training...but like Music, it's a Labor of LOVE!   
      
   > If you talk commercial jets, or military, then sure, those are solidly   
   > built and have enough power to get out of their own way. And you can't own   
   > one :-)   
      
   They're vulnerable too, to severe weather and pilot error, not at all unlike   
   any other aircraft.   
      
   > Only if that skill is to not crash the plane in the first place.   
      
   That's what pilot training is all about, to develop, increase, and maintain   
   skills to keep the aircraft in one piece ;)   
      
   > great. you should just buy a motherboard and a big case and build your own   
   > ideal system. if weight and portability doesn't matter, then have at it.   
      
   That's the plan, only problem is that I can't seem to find any computer   
   stores where I can do that around here.   
      
   > That was the techie hobbiest phase.   
      
   Not  at all, it was, and still is the affordability phase, and the learning   
   about the technology hands on and know what you're doing phase...as opposed   
   to the STUPID IGNORANT IDIOT PHASE!   
      
   > At some point technology transitions to being stable and reliable and then   
   > gets adopted by people who aren't hobbiests.   
      
   But they Are NON-thinking MINDLESS ZOMBIES!   
      
   > They expect it to work, without them having to know how it works.   
      
   In other words, the so-called 'operators' is expected to KNOW NOTHING ABOUT   
   WHAT THEY'RE DOING - and more  importantly, WHAT'S BEING DONE TO THEM -   
   WITHOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE!!!   
      
   > We're there with computers.   
      
   And that's simply, in a word, DANGEROUS!   
      
   > I expect it to work without ne having to do the engineers job so I can   
   > correct whatever misstakes they made designing it.   
      
   HOW can you even say such a thing when you've made it very clear several   
   times already, that not only did you do an engineer's job, but actually used   
   the knowledge to UNDO their Vile, DisHonest Schemes Deliberately Designed to   
   cause computer failure???   
      
   > I'm thinking " what songs will go over today ". I don't want to think, " I   
   > wonder if the bass players wife will call and pitch a shit fit over   
   > something right before the gig ".   
      
   Aren't there any reliable bass players available?   
      
   > Solo vs Band.   
      
   > Easy choice in my world. And as a solo, I carry my own gear. So light   
   > weight matters.   
      
   Jim   
      
   I guess I just find it too Awesome not to interact with other musicians and   
   find it too Lonely to go it alone ;)   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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