Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
I'm perpetually amused by pilots who ask legal questions, the answers to which are - despite the questioner's ignorance naivete - quite complex, then arc up at attempts by qualified experts to help dissect and explain the complexity. I'm also perpetually thankful for my blind luck in having survived decades of incompetent flying and incompetent (but lucrative) legal practise.
Might I suggest that if your reply to a reasonable question hadn't been patronising and sarcastic, the person who posed the question wouldn't have felt the need to "arc up"?