From: L Pham (ccie17030@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Aug 21 2008 - 21:53:15 ART
Brad,
I will save this story, and every time the wife complaining a bout
CCIE study expense, and free time : I will will tell her that I will
study to fly airplane for hobby ;-)))
That will help her change ;-)
Loc
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Brad Ellis <brad@ccbootcamp.com> wrote:
> Both Paul Borghese and I are pilots. I've got my instrument rating and
> I'm looking at a turbo prop (right now I fly a cirrus sr22). Paul flies
> a Cessna 172 or 182 (cant remember which). I'm looking at a turbo prop
> these days.
>
> Getting a pilot's license is relatively easy. It took two and a half
> months. Not too difficult. The hard part is when you're flying in IMC
> and get hit by lightning and keeping your cool. That is DEFINTELY more
> stressful than taking a CCIE lab exam!!! I'd rather take 10 CCIE lab
> exams sitting on sharp knives with Ben, Cathe, and Morrilo throwing
> rotten apples at me than get hit by lightning in a small airplane at
> 10,000 ft MSL 3,000 ft AGL, IMC and picking up light rhyme!!!
>
> CCIE and Pilot's license are very different. Being a pilot really
> requires a lot of responsibility - especially when there are other
> people in the plane with you and you are responsible for their lives
> too. If your plane goes down and crashes it's going to be a bit more
> painful than if your router goes down and crashes!
>
> Getting a CCIE is harder (IMHO) than getting a pilot's license. However
> keeping your CCIE is much easier than keeping your pilot skills sharp.
>
> thanks,
> Brad Ellis
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Radioactive Frog
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 7:03 AM
> To: Cisco certification
> Subject: OT: plane pilot vs CCIE
>
> Studing all 4 ccie's (RS/Voice/SEcurity/SP) vs learning how to fly the
> plane
>
> Does any body on this list have done both - e.g. has flown the
> commercials/private jet/plane and also done CCIE?
>
> Which one is harder?
>
> [I know you can't compare apple to orange but just an idea and just
> being
> curious]
>
> Cheers
>
> frog
>
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