CFI and assorted combatants,
I am and always will be an instructor. It is not all that I do, but it is always part of everything that I do.
I have incredible regard for those of my peers who find their chosen niche in flying instruction.
However, I was surrounded by a significant majority of instructors who were passing through instruction as a means of gaining sufficient experience to go on to easier and better paid things.
I have been insulted many times before and will continue to be so in the future. However, I don't have enough heartbeats left to get to wound up about a point of view that I think may be poorly expressly or unwisely held. But I don't hide from the fact that these things are out there. I prefer to deal with adverse things up front, rather than pretend they don't exist.
Moderators have a very difficult and narrow path to tread, particularly where slander may be involved. However, broadly expressed opinions rarely provoke class actions and so one must be careful not to censor the forum under the guise of "legal consequences". If you continue to permit only the rosy view of us and our profession, you will choke the flow and thus the participation.
I prefer the intellectual challenge of reading, forming a view and then choosing between persuasion based on sound reasoning or ignoring the provocation. Then again, I find "political correctness" a blight on human behaviour and one of life's greatest provocations!!
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Stay Alive,
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