Oh, the irony, as L2driver smugly declares:
I am seriously worried about the lack of basic physics knowledge and airmanship a lot of posters show on this forum. We are supposed to be the Professional Pilots Rumour Network, not the idiot commentators
after such mumbo jumbo nonsense as:
Sorry - Mass is a term used in the JAR-OPS/EU-OPS these days. Please substitute mass with weight which is relative to gravity for people to understand....
sailplanes are no different from other aircraft... I'll let you in on a secret: I have flown them too. Of course they have speed-brakes, but that is for bad planners and landings in tight spots....
With such awful knowledge of basic physics and sailplane operation, his mocking taunt
where did you go to school??.
of another contributor is laughable.
His claim to be "a pilot, test pilot and an accident investigator too." is worrying. "Actually the Air Force and then my company declared me a 'test pilot'. I have the papers to prove it."!!!!
More worrying is the way he uses this forum to belittle others whose knowledge of the physics of flight is far greater than his.
But most worrying of all is that other more impressionable readers might well fall for his arguments, and believe the same nonsense that he clearly believes and spouts as fact.
As for expecting others to buy him a beer for the quality of his teaching -pah! It really is about time that 'idiot commentators' and their bunkum physics misunderstandings are 'brought down to earth with a bump'.
Never mind L2driver - I'm sure the big expensive Breitling still impresses everyone even if your physics doesn't.