Comments on: Getting schooled in formation flying

The author gets an opportunity to be a passenger in a small plane taking part in a two-aircraft formation flight over California.

[clicclic99]

Great article and something to research later when I finally (if ever) pass my checkride... Thanks for the great photos too.

[lowenbrau212]

Formation Flying? In single engine planes? That's tech news?
What happened to Second Life Daniel? I thought that was going to take over everyone's life?
But you grew tired of that joke and decided to take flying lessons now huh?

News.com.com + Daniel Terdman = The biggest joke ever

News.com.com is pathetic enough as it is, Daniel just reaches up and pulls it down lower and lower with each article, first with Second Life and now this. What's you're next article going to be on? Mowing lawns?

[jim kerstetter]

Bad day?

This is an awfully personal attack, and I guess you have your reasons. Though why anyone would have such personal animosity toward Daniel would be baffling to anyone who has ever met the man at a gaming event, at any of the many tech-related cultural events he's covered, or at one of his stops on his annual road trips across the country.

No matter.

Daniel will continue to cover the offbeat of tech culture as well as the mainstream of gaming and tech news. We like to call it the "cybergroovy" beat. Some of his pieces you may like, and some you won't. And thanks for reading all of them (which you clearly have).

[mikeburek]

I liked the article. Even though CNet is probably not a main source for non-tech articles. they have some of the best. If I were to look for an article like this, I might think of Popular Science or Popular Mechanics. I used to subscribe to those magazines. But you know what? It soon became a large mail-order catalog that delivered to my house, with fewer articles and less talent each month.

CNet is great because I can read what I want, when I want. I can search any previous story online, and easily share it with friends. With Pop Sci, I have to keep every magazine, and if I want to read something before I subscribed, I'd have to hunt for archived text at university libraries.

My life is not narrowly focused on one single topic, so when I get a chance to read a well written article about varied topics, I do. If there is an article I don't want to read, I don't have to. Not like local TV news, where I'd have to wait through a story. There are plenty of other articles that I can read. Do you know how LPs are physically made? Has Rolling Stone, a dedicated music magazine, ever done an article on that? Well, Daniel has, and I think that is awesome!

I really like Daniel's Road Trip series the last few years. What other news company lets their writers do such varied topics? When local TV news does this, it's just 30 seconds filler slots. At CNet, these offbeat articles get as much attention as a core-tech article. The well-written wide coverage is a definite bonus for CNet readers.

Keep up the awesome work CNet and Daniel Terdiman!

[wpolak]

Thanks for the nice article. But I need to add one important note: while formation flying is great fun but it's also serious business. Don't try this on your own. Start with an instructor that knows what (s)he's doing.