On 05/12/2013 12:11 PM, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: > > > 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.
Way back when it was still around, I loved the Magic Edge (in Mountain View) simulators. One of the very few bars in the world with SGI Onyx machines. They ran the motion platform flight sims on it. I seem to remember having fun in those, but I usually wound up flying upside-down or on my side. That and a propensity for crashing into the water or mountain sides suggested to me that I might lack the aptitude for more than a video game. -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics, Inc. email: [email protected] web : http://scalableinformatics.com http://scalableinformatics.com/siflash phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 fax : +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615 _______________________________________________ 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
