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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2006-09-14 under

"[Flying an aircraft] is very different from driving a land vehicle, especially a car. And as I HAVE tried flying an aircraft, AND watercraft, and a large number of different types of ground craft, I can say this with fair certainty. Driving a car is basically like running. Yes, there's mechanical differences, but you use the same mental skillset, except you're not concerned with your own physical resources being exhausted just from doing it for a short time.

"Flying is like nothing we do normally, not even swimming."

-- [livejournal.com profile] seawasp, 2006-06-13 in the newsgroup rec.arts.sf.fandom [Message-ID: <448E2A3B.1040902@obvioussgeinc.com>, Subject: "Re: go directly to jail"]

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posted by [identity profile] silmaril.livejournal.com at 10:39pm on 2006-09-14
The third dimension matters a lot. I can say that just from Nintendo games flying X-Wings, and you don't even have to figure out take off or landing with those.
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posted by [identity profile] madbodger.livejournal.com at 04:07am on 2006-09-15
Swimming and flying seem more natural and automatic to me than walking or rolling.
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posted by [identity profile] garnet-rattler.livejournal.com at 02:03am on 2006-09-17
Ditto. And upon being (ever so willingly!) drawn into a Very primitive VR world a while back, I flew about comfortably almost immediately. This, however, does imply that you (and I) are abnormal in at least one way ... ;-)
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