Military Aviation expert
- Thread starter joy1982
- Start date
///AMG
Well-Known Member
While I think personal experience would be a great help here, there are folks who have made a living doing it without ever having flown in the military. Not sure how one would go about it, but I suppose getting affiliated with some sort of think-tank would likely be a start.
Try this on for size, Hacker. A variation of the OPs post, modified for myself:
How far do you think I'd get with that?
ppragman
No pasa nada.
Potentially, there are numerous historians who are experts on subjects in which they have no actual experience in.
Try this on for size, Hacker. A variation of the OPs post, modified for myself:
How far do you think I'd get with that?
Hacker15e
Who am I? Where are my pants?
It brings up an important point -- the very loaded nature of the term "expert" and "historian".
This is something I wrote for another forum, where there is a particular topic that I have studied for about 8 years for a book I'm writing on that topic. I'm regularly referenced as both an "expert" and a "historian", both of which I flatly reject because, despite years of research on a very narrow and largely unknown topic, it's one that I have no firsthand knowledge of.
Only very rarely are 'experts' actually legitimately a source of accurate and relevant information. How many times are you watching the news and see their "aviation expert" come on to commentate on a crash or other incident (you know, the only time that aviation ever makes the news), and you wonder just what planet this expert can possibly have come from because of the inaccurate and idiotic things coming out of his mouth.
So, I really have little use for 'experts', especially those who desire to make themselves one, rather than being made one by their peers in that line of work.
This is something I wrote for another forum, where there is a particular topic that I have studied for about 8 years for a book I'm writing on that topic. I'm regularly referenced as both an "expert" and a "historian", both of which I flatly reject because, despite years of research on a very narrow and largely unknown topic, it's one that I have no firsthand knowledge of.
Only very rarely are 'experts' actually legitimately a source of accurate and relevant information. How many times are you watching the news and see their "aviation expert" come on to commentate on a crash or other incident (you know, the only time that aviation ever makes the news), and you wonder just what planet this expert can possibly have come from because of the inaccurate and idiotic things coming out of his mouth.
So, I really have little use for 'experts', especially those who desire to make themselves one, rather than being made one by their peers in that line of work.
ppragman
No pasa nada.
Just because someone is an expert doesn't mean they have stopped learning about a subject. An "expert" on quantum physics is potentially learning all the time. I would (and I feel rightly so) label you as an "expert" on F15 systems, tactics, and operations, but that doesn't mean you know everything there is to know about those subjects. That would be literally and figuratively impossible given the nature and complexities of the subject material to begin with.
Indeed, I counter with the assumption that many times, these "experts" that you have disdain for are in fact the only way we can reliably filter through the rampant BS and noisy static that our lives consist of daily. Or, to put it another way, experts simplify and classify topics for those of us who are not experts. For example, as pilots we see only a small picture of what is going on in our particular organization. Consider maintenance. As far as we pilots are concerned, you squawk a problem on the airplane, it goes to the shop and comes back fixed. Now, of course, various companies and organizations have varied levels of participation (we often times spend whole days in the shop trying to help mechanics, or more likely, getting in their way), but without mechanics to interpret or tell us what needs fixing, or without the "expert," we're fairly limited in our ability to know what needs done, other than, "this here's busted, you aught a fix it." Most of us would be helpless if we needed to do an entire hundred hour inspection by ourselves, or do an engine change. At that point, we need to call in an expert.
Bumblebee
Commodore
what does this mean?
To what purpose?
So you can go on tv and talk about it?
I really am curious why...
I imagine you could start with the following:
read
question
research
listen to the guys doing the job
///AMG
Well-Known Member
My *guess* would be to become a historian on the subject. I'd think that could possibly open some doors depending on what it was that you specialized in. Obviously your ticket (if there is one to be had) is through formal academia at a well respected school. From there, I have no idea where you would go. Nobody is going to hire someone with no personal experience on the grounds that they have self-studied on the topic.
Bumblebee
Commodore
you mean other than CNN/FOX/MSNBC:laff:
Low&Slow
Ancora imparo
You mean like, Tom Clancy? I don't know you well enough to judge whether it is possible for YOU to become military aviation expert, but it has been done by others. Like Henry Ford said, "Whether you think you can or can't, you're right."
The Gardener
Terrafirma Phobic
I'm almost certain you qualify for a job at Faux News and MSNBC. I bet CNN would even take a look at your resume.
mjg407
Well-Known Member
I think that is like having Erin Andrew's cover football.
Just having some fun.
granlistillo
Well-Known Member
My kid is 11 and knows a whole lot of things about the airline industry that I don't have a clue about and really don't care. We were hanging out at the Beach at ft myers awhile back and I saw a plane and said "look a maddog". He said "nah, airtran livery and fat engines, B717". I thought livery was a stable. All a matter of perspective.
Anywhoo, you're in calcutta? I would say there are lots of analysts who work at Janes or as suggested "think tanks", who weren't aviators but are arguably experts. But really entry into that world with no military experience might be difficult.
If you want to do it as a passion then by all means do it. There are plane spotters who do that for their hobby. Just don't pretend to be someone your not.
Anywhoo, you're in calcutta? I would say there are lots of analysts who work at Janes or as suggested "think tanks", who weren't aviators but are arguably experts. But really entry into that world with no military experience might be difficult.
If you want to do it as a passion then by all means do it. There are plane spotters who do that for their hobby. Just don't pretend to be someone your not.