Originally Posted by
Ascend Charlie
A surgeon came to my flying school to learn to fly helicopters. He had long, delicate fingers and thin wiry arms. His arms were so thin that he could not pull himself up the side of the aircraft to inspect the rotor head. He could not hold the control forces of an R22 for more than a few minutes, and had to change to the B47 which had hydraulic controls.
He was absolutely useless as a pilot. He gave up after about 10 hours, never got to the hydraulics-off sorties, and went back to being a millionaire.
I am working on my third million dollars at the moment. I gave up on ever making the first two.
Yes but a career pilot doesn’t pop down to the local surgery school to get a few hours of cutting time as a hobby. Therein lies a fundamental difference.