Originally Posted by
Cedrus
......and that is why this forum has lost credibility.
Social media allows any enthusiast to make comment on technical issues that they’re not qualified to comment on. In some cases, not necessarily this one, that same comment can encourage, validate, or endorse others to emulate similar actions or behaviour. In all walks of life and regardless of your profession, people will be influenced by others.
In aviation, we train people to influence others in a good way. They’re called instructors and they’re a controlled influence.
Tom from Croydon isn’t an instructor or a subject matter expert. Perhaps he’s never flown before but he pulls a mean wheelie on his motorbike. Yet half the thread is full of unqualified gibberish from the likes of Tom (and sadly some ‘qualified’ people that should know better).
A cut and paste from the FCTM says it all.
If you’re not qualified to make comment good or bad, then don’t. By all means ask a question and if you’re qualified to answer it, do so.
If we can’t respect the first P in PPrune then the forum may as well be renamed Parka Pilots Rumour Network. That’s not a slight on the forum itself, but the contributors.
Pointless rant over...
The lack of/dilution of P pilots on this forum has rendered it almost pointless tbh. Pretty much every post is swamped with people that don’t have a clue what they’re talking about. Maybe there should be a sub forum for actually qualified proven professional pilots. I would certainly pay more attention to that...