# Oh, noes!  Little airplanes might hurt us!

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**Created:** [December 7, 2010, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-little-airplanes-might-hurt-us/563236 "2010-12-07T04:06:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-little-airplanes-might-hurt-us/563236/21 "2010-12-07T20:29:05Z")

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> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> I never considered the training, testing and paperwork to be hurdles. I never looked at them that way before.

Perspective is everything. A friend of mine back in high school and university got his private pilot’s license while he was still in high school. To us, having to study/do everything on Mach Tuck’s list in addition to our regular drudgery of high school was something we considered onerous; and to use your own phrase, we couldn’t see jumping all the hurdles that stood in his way. But not our friend. Like us, he considered high school to be a necessary evil, but he thrived on everything he had to learn in order to fly, happily jumping over the hurdles as they arose. So I guess it’s all a matter of perspective.

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