CAC, I wasn't talking about a ride, I was talking about having someone let you fly and they are present just as PIC to make it all legal. sure, and when I win the lottery, I'll just hire some starving flight instructor, clamoring to make the big-time, like I once was, to follow me around.
it is better than sitting home stewing about what you've lost, KWIM? ... or you can sit and moan about the shitty hand you got dealt.
{channeling Richard Nixon:}
let me make myself perfectly clear...
I'm not doing that. I'm just explaining what it was that happened. I believe it is a very unusual sort of thing. It was asserted that this "bad thing" that happend is the root of all my problems, and I was just explaining what it was that happened, and how its not like all these other things that people are comparing it to. For the most part, the only people who understand this are other pilots, but particularly, professional pilots, who have (as I had) all their eggs in one basket, and have even more to lose than I had then.