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Old 30th April 2004 | 09:06
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Genghis the Engineer
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Defending the good Burghers of Seager Publishing, how often do you learn to fly?

If you wander into WH Smiths or John Menzies, you'll find a stack of guides in magazine format, along the lines of..

- Learn to fly
- Buying your first house
- Getting married
- Your first baby
- Your first car.

etc. etc.


It's hardly reasonable, in my opinion, to expect these (even if they are published in a magazine format) to be new and fresh each year - what's the point?

Even if, say 2 years ago you learned to fly gliders, and this year you have decided to learn to fly helicopters, you've by now got a fair grasp of the mechanics of learning, and the basics of what flying is about and all you really need is a list of schools and their details. This, one trusts, is entirely up to date; but I can't see why it needs reformatting in any way, nor should the general description of what it's like learning to fly a helicopter need to be much different to it was 2, 5 or 10 years ago.

As for the pictures, well presumably the publisher paid for them once, and I can't see how paying for another set of copyright pictures this year is going to improve what is supposed to be an information guide, not entertainment.

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