Originally Posted by
gearlever
Flaps issue = Emergency?
....I'm afraid you have no clue what declearing an emergency in fact means.....
Oh boy.
... Who is in charge of the airplane?
I'm getting old....
'gearlever' once believed they were top dog, wrestling big heavy machines around the sky with little if any assistance from anyone else, such was their confidence in their God-given skills and massive ego.
In more recent times, now much older, they play with much smaller things which can barely rise or stay up - usually from the comfort of an armchair, which has its own odour. But the ego remains, so they are keen to spout forth on any subject, claiming it wouldn't be close to an emergency for them back in their glory days when they felt in their prime, no matter even if it is ATC who requests them such a simple courtesy as to set a squawk - such humiliation for such a fragile ego.
Please be gentle on them in their dotage.
