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RE: If you were alone on the planet, what would you do?
May 12, 2020 at 4:25 pm
(May 12, 2020 at 3:42 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (May 12, 2020 at 3:15 pm)A. Secular Human Wrote: I'd go to the nearest Air Force training facility and use it to learn to fly high-performance planes. Then I'd spend the rest of my days flying F-35s or whatever supersonic jets were around.
Self-taught in a jet? I suspect the rest of your days would end on the runway. 
Boru Without a good ground crew he's be perfectly safe, sitting motionless in a cold jet going "pew pew pew" while thrashing the joystick.
The other joystick. 
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RE: If you were alone on the planet, what would you do?
May 12, 2020 at 4:49 pm
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(May 12, 2020 at 4:25 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: (May 12, 2020 at 3:42 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Self-taught in a jet? I suspect the rest of your days would end on the runway.
Boru Without a good ground crew he's be perfectly safe, sitting motionless in a cold jet going "pew pew pew" while thrashing the joystick.
The other joystick.
Oh, I see. Kind of like how I drive Formula 1 cars at 325 kmh (sitting in my easy chair making *vroom vroom* noises).
Joystick sold separately.
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RE: If you were alone on the planet, what would you do?
May 12, 2020 at 9:04 pm
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(May 11, 2020 at 6:39 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: *spoilers*
I'll find out in a couple of months.
They resolved to leave you behind, didn’t they?
(May 12, 2020 at 3:15 pm)A. Secular Human Wrote: I'd go to the nearest Air Force training facility and use it to learn to fly high-performance planes. Then I'd spend the rest of my days flying F-35s or whatever supersonic jets were around.
F-35 is high performance?
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RE: If you were alone on the planet, what would you do?
May 13, 2020 at 5:22 am
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(May 12, 2020 at 9:04 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: (May 11, 2020 at 6:39 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: *spoilers*
I'll find out in a couple of months.
They resolved to leave you behind, didn’t they?
(May 12, 2020 at 3:15 pm)A. Secular Human Wrote: I'd go to the nearest Air Force training facility and use it to learn to fly high-performance planes. Then I'd spend the rest of my days flying F-35s or whatever supersonic jets were around.
F-35 is high performance? compared to an F85.
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RE: If you were alone on the planet, what would you do?
May 13, 2020 at 5:35 am
Conclude that the simulation had been terminated and go back to sleep. er............um, I mean............ mattress tags beware!
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RE: If you were alone on the planet, what would you do?
May 13, 2020 at 7:21 am
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Make sure T.rump wasn't President any more. 
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RE: If you were alone on the planet, what would you do?
May 13, 2020 at 10:50 am
(May 13, 2020 at 5:22 am)onlinebiker Wrote: (May 12, 2020 at 9:04 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: They resolved to leave you behind, didn’t they?
F-35 is high performance? compared to an F85.
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Even if equipped with a turbocharger?
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RE: If you were alone on the planet, what would you do?
May 13, 2020 at 11:22 am
(May 13, 2020 at 10:50 am)Fireball Wrote: (May 13, 2020 at 5:22 am)onlinebiker Wrote: compared to an F85.
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Even if equipped with a turbocharger?
Even if.
We had several F85s in the late sixties/early 70s... Dad always bought the 2 door with the 250 cid 6 and 3 on the tree... What I learned to drive in....
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RE: If you were alone on the planet, what would you do?
May 13, 2020 at 6:50 pm
(May 12, 2020 at 3:43 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: (May 12, 2020 at 3:15 pm)A. Secular Human Wrote: I'd go to the nearest Air Force training facility and use it to learn to fly high-performance planes. Then I'd spend the rest of my days flying F-35s or whatever supersonic jets were around.
You might want to use their training facilities and learn all the electrical, hydraulic and mechanical systems first.
The more complex the machine the higher degree of preventive maintenance it will need.
I can handle piston engines with magnetos and carbs...... I don't think I would do so well on turbines and fly by wire computers....
When you've got nothing but time, you can start with the basics. I didn't say it would be quick. I would probably train for a couple years from the ground up. It would be totally worth it.
I have sort of a head start, with an engineering degree and knowledge of the fundamentals of flight from slope-soaring RC sailplanes...
I probably wouldn't drink beer and smoke dope before climbing into the cockpit of an F-35, though. 
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RE: If you were alone on the planet, what would you do?
May 13, 2020 at 6:58 pm
(May 13, 2020 at 6:50 pm)A. Secular Human Wrote: (May 12, 2020 at 3:43 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: You might want to use their training facilities and learn all the electrical, hydraulic and mechanical systems first.
The more complex the machine the higher degree of preventive maintenance it will need.
I can handle piston engines with magnetos and carbs...... I don't think I would do so well on turbines and fly by wire computers....
When you've got nothing but time, you can start with the basics. I didn't say it would be quick. I would probably train for a couple years from the ground up. It would be totally worth it.
I have sort of a head start, with an engineering degree and knowledge of the fundamentals of flight from slope-soaring RC sailplanes...
I probably wouldn't drink beer and smoke dope before climbing into the cockpit of an F-35, though.
RC experience is good translated to real life - more so than the reverse - but it still isn't the same animal.
I have been flying RC for almost 40 years. Fixed and rotary. I flew helicopters before gyros.
My dad soloed in 1949 and has multiple thousand hours in recip and multi engine jets....
And he STILL can't land an RC trainer.....
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