MikeTK

What are some of the best aviation/plane movies you can think of right now?

I am gathering information on this subject and will publish a blog on a website.

Like I pointed out with the "plague" we have been bestowed upon. Since there was a commercial airline furlough, pilots have experienced some atrophy in regards to operating the plane.

 

A good analogy I can give you is with how the brain retains information. A lot, and I mean a lot of everything you read or hear on a day by day basis gets tossed out of your memory like memory in computer RAM (temporally storage) simply because it's "junk" and not needed anymore. The two chief ways of trying to retain things you want to remember are association and repetition. But like a body builder you have to maintain the rigorous exercise. If at any point you decide to take a hiatus, eventually you'll lose some of what you gained. I guess the same would apply to the Martial Arts or Buddhist Monks. Same could be said of a pianist or painter, etc. Even in the trades like a welder or perhaps an electrician or pipe fitter. (I know how to weld, cut steel and know some electrical work).

 

Now, I still remember maybe ~70% of the afforded simulated avionics in the PMDG 737, but I haven't flown that particular model in at least eight years now, and I know damn well I'm going to be A) uncomfortable at first flying it again, and B) will have to go back over some things and read over the massive manual to see what I enter in the FMS for something as little as being redirected to another intersection, or even a new altitude restriction. Hell if I remember how I can enter that in the scratch pad and bring it back into the route again. It's just not something my brain kept as "useful information." Especially true since my daily regimen is to learn new things every day and I have notes here all over hell just trying to remember things as simple as the acronym "AN/PRC 117". Or the formula using Sine to figure out the pitch for a whole house fan. (No, I'm not buying a pitch gauge, yo). Then there's a mountain of computer crap I learn everyday, code, cybersecurity crap and going beyond with things like reading the Ukrainian newspapers to see how that crap storm is going to pan out. (Check out the Internet Public Library).

 

So you can quickly see here that even though I've flown many times with the PMDG 737 each and every single day, when you don't do that for some time (years), and you're also trying to retain other information, it becomes a very tall order for the hard drive so to speak.

 

On the other hand, my long term memory for certain things is pretty damn impressive to say the least. I'm 41 now and as I'm writing this I can literary remember in CinemaScope-like fashion my preschool teacher showing me how to wash my hands or tie my shoes. I can also remember seeing a flyer for a circus for the first time with a clown as its center piece and thinking to myself just what in the hell that thing was!? To this day I think clowns are massively stupid as all hell. And it tickles me to think people are afraid of that crap. LOL My aunt would turn on WGN to see Bozo and I utterly hated it. LMAO! For me it was G.I. Joe and Thundercats. Clowns, Sesame Street or Mr. Rogers were completely out of the picture for me. G.I. Joe and the freaking Atari!

 

Anyway... Right now I'm listening to the soundtrack to my favorite N64 game Perfect Dark on Spotify. Thinking about this subject now, if I pulled up the ROM for Perfect Dark I'd still have to think on where this or that was in a level even though I played that game like nobody's business. That was some 20 years ago at least. (Always thought that game could have been an epic movie. The story line demands it).

 

 

 

 

 

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This was an awsome movie