PM by Lafyar, lets keep comments in the public domain shall we. I'm too busy to debate each post individually.
Lafyar - you misunderstand, the whole post was not addressed at you -
calm down, how could you overreact and misconstrue comments like "wannabees everywhere" and "Guys those 4 years were HARD" as being addressed to you.
Also if somebody has the good grace to offer their "sincere apologies" prior to receiving your petty PM, then its says more about you if you do not have the good grace to accept them.
Regarding my prediction I stand by it and would argue that in 2005 which is when my prediction became "valid" recruitment was the best it had been for a very good number of years since 9/11 and the late 90's with many wannabees getting their first job with regionals and at that time even BA taking on DEP's which would have been laughed out of court if I had made that comment back in 2003.
In ten years of pruning you are the first person to make it on my ignore list - congratulations
Lafyars PM.........
Mr GSPOT
I do not wish to have a public show-down, or try to prove anything in publicly on the forums of PPRUNE. I thought I would let you know exactly what I thought was so rude and ill thought-out in your post.
The post was addressed to me - with my moniker at the top. I believe I can therefore reasonably conclude that the comments within were all addressed to me. If at any stage you had referred to 'wannabes' or any other term to describe people looking to make choices about flying training then I could possibly forgive some of your assumptions - however you said "you" when refering to my chances of attaing a RHS position in a 737, "you" when going on about Seneca time and "you" refering to the amount of common sense I have.
With regards to common sense - I think maybe you are swimming in the shorter depths of the common-sense pool. Before publicly attacking someone - it maybe wise to check up a little about them, rather than shoot from the hip and immediately accuse anyone who posts something that you don't agree with of having
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some seneca time and no experience
The merest peek into my previous posts may have indicated that this was not the case - I started flying when you were probably in junior school, have been in the civil flying sector and for the last sixteen years as a helicopter pilot in the military. I am now out and happily sitting in the RHS of a 737 after applying for various jobs - including bizjets - for the last year.
I can see that you are GA/BizJet pilot who has gained some experience in this field but are probably keen to move into the airlines - looking at selection with MyTravel, EasyJet and BMI.
With regards the price of fuel reaching $180 dollars a barrel - I don't doubt that one day it will - however a man who has the courage of his convictions would have said "Oil will reach $180 dollars a barrel by (for example) November 08" rather than the comlete get-out of
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When Oil hits $180 a barrel, I shall politely remind you of this thread.
Regarding predicitons can I remind you of one of yours from 2003?
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I propose that in 1-2 years time, paying for a type rating will be a thing of the past. With a reasonable amount of experience Airlines will be positively tripping over themselves to recruit suitable applicants.
As you can see - we don't all have the answers - we just offer the best advice as seems fit at the time.
My original post merely stated the fact that over two days the rampant oil price had corrected. I stated openly that this was merely interesting and not a basis for anyone to mortgage anyone's home over. You elected to direct your fairly defamatory post at me, telling me that I had too little common sense to operate a 737 and that I had no idea what I was talking about. That attack was unwarranted and showed you as a person that does not take in the whole picture, cannot think through an idea without balance and fire back without thought. Is this how you fly an aircraft - I sincerely hope that for you and your passengers it is not.
Maybe you should consider whether a rethink of some of your sentiment is in order.