On 5/12/13 8:42 AM, "Geoffrey Jacobs" <[email protected]> wrote:
>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. Or if they even like flying at all. > 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
