Paul Burridge wrote:
Hi guys,

Well do you think it is? I personally can't think of any other
passtime accessible to the individual which requires such a high
degree of technical knowledge to succeed at. If anyone can think of
something more complex, let's hear it!

Paul
Depends. Other hobbies that require some serious skills:

Amateur Telescope Making (lets see you design AND TEST multiple optical
surfaces with the reqired tolerance).

Home Foundary. Special skills required in safely handling white hot
molten metal, and making sand molds.

Amateur Rocketry. (Yup this IS rocket science! Im NOT talking
Estes here!)

Home building aircraft. Besides a pilots licence (to test the final
product) the skill to do it right (you going to actually FLY that thing
YOURSELF!).

Then there was the guy I met in college that built his own SUBMARINE!
(he was a scuba diver).

BTW, I AM interrested in numbers 1 and 2, and at one time number 4
(but I havn't flown since my 10 year old kids were born).