Kittel, Stephen W (ETSA) wrote:
From: Allan Armistead
is it really credible that when someone comes onto an airfield and joins a
club that they are planning to stay to solo and then go away again?
I too, have seen this often over the years.
As much as I fail to understand it, there are many people for which the
fascination of flight, the moods of the atmosphere, the wonder of trying
to understand an invisible medium and of being up there amongst it, of
being able to move in three dimensions instead of the the normal two
that are available down here amongst the groundhogs, has little or no
meaning or significance.
Flying is just another mechanical activity as they move through their
'Reader's Digest' lives of just sampling things and moving on and not of
immersing themselves and savouring all it has to offer. These people are
happy with Chateau Cardboard and have no interest in the Grange. They
are cows cropping the tips of the grass and failing to understand that
all the flavour begins in the roots.
I don't know how that can be changed.
As a list member has often said of people, " You can tell 'em, but you
can't give 'em the f.....g brains to think with."
--
Leigh Bunting
Colonel Light Gardens
South Australia
<Open Windows and let the bugs in>
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