What you are saying is incorrect. I'll explain further. Yeah, anyone can walk in, plop down 5-grand and take pilot training for a few months and get a private pilots license. I would say that at least half of them actually pass the checkride and written exam and get their license. They can fly in day visual conditions and carry passengers. But then you have to get an Instrument Rating and that is completely beyond the capability of most people, trust me. They literally but a hood on your head so you cannot see out of the window and make you perform approach after approach using at least 3 different technologies. I would say maybe 20% of licensed pilots get their Instrument Rating. Once you have a Private Pilot License with Instrument Rating you can get your Commerical Pilots License which you need if you will ever take any compensation for flying. Alot of people become a Certified Flight Instructor at this point and probably have less than 200 hours of flight time as Pilot in Command. Now you have to take multi-engine training and multi-engine instrument training. Then turbine training. Then you have to get an Air Transport Pilot license and that is basically the PhD of the industry. Then you have to get type training in the aircraft you will fly. All of this costs big money and the flying is very demanding. By the time somebody gets into the left seat in a GIV they probably have 2000+ hours total time and have spent $100k+ in flight training and have sat in classrooms for another 2000 hours for ground school and that is on the fast track. You are the one obsessing here as anyone can see. Your facts are wrong.
Sounds like a nice long winded way to say.....Practice Which is not inconsistent with what I said. 13 weeks to get in, and with some practice........
Once again, I'm not asking just you and Lucrum, I want everyone down here to act like an adult. Everyone includes you.
You are just wrong and are incapable of admitting it. Your character will not allow for the possibility. You lack the confidence needed to see you through any admission of error. You need to give yourself more credit for your accomplishments and realize that small errors don't define you. Gotta be honest with yourself before you can be honest with others imho.
You are correct. I got my pilot's license many many many years ago. Getting to solo in a single engine plane during the day with perfect visibility is one thing, getting your IFR, a whole other thing entirely. This is the nuance I was trying to get through to RCG. It's like comparing a trader who says he made a billion dollars on a simulator and then asking him to trade real money. Of course anyone can trade on a simulator.
But you posted directly to me, and Ricter, and AK....where is your post to Lucrum, or pspr? Or maybe, you have a bias, and you just tipped your hand But this is P&R, nothing to do with upstairs. I just know where you are, as you clearly cannot post anywhere that you asked Lucrum to grow up, and he was the one posted all the pics Not that this surprises me, however........
RCG, I'm not going to go around the forum and ask every single poster one by one. I'm asking everyone as a group. Can you at least try Ron? Don't take this personally. Just try it out for a day and see if you like it.
Or maybe, you need to be right so that your waning life will have some meaning, and that is okay also