On 05/12/2013 10:29 AM, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > Jim, > > If you want to train a new jetfighter pilot, you're going to just > give them a course how to drive a moped, > and after they can drive a moped, you are going to give them a pilot > license and wave good bye to > them: "good luck to you flying your own Cessna". > > You gotta be joking with what you write here.
No, you start them on a low fidelity flight simulator to see if they can grasp the basic dynamics of flying. If the prospective pilot is civilian, they start on a cheap, highly forgiving aircraft like a sailplane or a Piper Cub. Principles are the same in engineering. You try to make mistakes in the lab environment so that failure modes which follow from your design decisions are understood and accepted or mitigated. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
