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To: AzJP
" Fixed wings are for those pilots who can't do more than one thing at a time."

With that statement, I assume that you aren't instrument rated flying single pilot.

10 posted on 03/11/2002 5:09:08 PM PST by dalereed
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To: dalereed
LOL
Not any more, but once upon a time long long ago.
That slogan I used is from an old bumper sticker/tee shirt sold a long time ago. I think by the Whirly Girls.
It refered to those bad days when only small fixed wings had even one axis auto pilot.
Yes, it's a better world now, but I do remember when the only way to do a cross country and trim the ship for something important like map reading, coffee drinking, or nose picking was to choose a fixed wing over a fling wing.
'course those days the skies were damn near empty. Now I wouldn't get anywhere say Van Nuys in other than a commercial. Used to do it VFR in a 150, and the occasional Lear or U2 would scare me poopless.
But I know what you mean, and I admire and respect those that can drive a fixed wing twin IFR through a crowded sky in bad weather.
Still, for a little time in the pattern of a quiet airport, I think a heli would be more of a workout than a light fixed.
Heck, what's better: chocolate or vanilla?

Now a Stearman, that's fun................

14 posted on 03/11/2002 5:25:42 PM PST by AzJP
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To: dalereed
Fixed wings are for those pilots who can't do more than one thing at a time.

Further fun in the bumper sticker/t-shirt saying vein:

Helicopters don't really fly -- they just beat the air into submission.

17 posted on 03/11/2002 5:40:12 PM PST by T-Bird45
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