Originally Posted by
Manwell
Considering the general agreement displayed in your comments, is there a forum that allows experienced pilots to pass on their hard won experience to casualties of this system?
Originally Posted by
Pilot DAR
Yes! You're here!
There is an incredible wealth of wisdom and experience here. We have such a great cross section of pilots here, with so much to offer. It's just a matter of asking. You'll find a pretty fair balance of responses - the wise members here want to share their knowledge.
The key is that the askers need to consider the value of the information that they receive as an answer, as much as the source. I have known many [mere] PPL's, who with their lifetime of serious recreational flying, particularly on odd types were a wealth of wisdom. And, if in doubt, PM a poster. I have never been disappointed with a PM discussion, when I wanted to keep things out of the forefront.
I have learned (sometimes the embarrassing way), that a license, or letters after your name, are not the end of your education!
Whilst my use of Pprune has waned enormously in recent years, when I was a 22yr old F/O and was posting on here when it first became a forum rather than an e-mail chain and newsletter, I found this site to be a huge source of knowledge and information. Much of it was just simple things about how to think about flying or examples of problems and solutions rather than specific flying techniques, but that is what a text based forum is always going to be best at.
Much of what I've learned over the years (and indeed many stories I still use to illustrate training) came from this very forum. Sometimes you have to separate the wheat from the chaff a bit, but there is no flying forum I have ever found that has the breadth and depth of knowledge about flying as this one.