Re: the thrill of flying interview is here!

Dudley Henriques wrote:
> Brandan; listen up; and get this straight once and for all.
> As someone who has spent an entire lifetime devoted to teaching people that
> flying an aircraft has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING at all to do with "thrill
> seeking"; and actually using what you are selling as a perfect example of
> negative motivation and negative incentive; I can tell you that if injecting
> an element of thrill seeking into your "report" is your goal, you will find
> no one here, at least in my opinion, no one who knows their butt from a bull
> fiddle, who will allow this premise to exist on this group without cogent
> and direct response. We are in the business of teaching people to stay alive
> in airplanes; NOT seeking "thrills" in them!!!

1. Dudley, aren't you a fighter pilot guy? I have one word for you. 
"Flathatting". The time-honored tradition of reckless thrill seeking in 
airplanes. Pilots are drawn to it like moths to the bug zapper. Many's 
the pilot who has tied the record for min altitude. Your politically 
correct wish that pilot's real goal to is eradicate the seeking of 
thrills flies in the face of overwhelming evidence.

2. Read his web page. It's kind of funny. After looking at it, I could 
see where people would submit:
a. The thrill of flying a GCA and getting only "on glideslope/on 
course" calls the whole way down.
b. the thrill of a first flight in a plane I built with my own hands
c. The thrill of my first solo
d. The thrill of my first guns kill
e. The thrill of ridge soaring 100 kts at 100 feet on a beautiful fall day
f. The thrill of flying a perfect aerobatic routine in glassy air



> I suggest you forget about pilots for your "thrill report"; at least pilots
> who know anything at all about flying an airplane.

I suggest he came to EXACTLY the right place.

Mike