A few of us over in Dunnunda & Godzone have been trying to get the same ball rolling for some time with little success.
The answer is always that due to server priorities and the incredible amount of hits that Pprune receives the powers that be are not interested in a Utility/Bush Pilot type of Forum.
I was thinking though that it might be reasonable to request that one of the other forums i.e; this one........... might simply have its name changed. It doesn't appear to be that well patronized anyway.
That would fix the problems for both sides.
I know there is a real need for a forum devoted to Ag and Pprune is the obvious place. Here's something I posted over in D&G questions a couple of nights ago.
Disgruntled Ag-Pilots seek own forum - Threaten Global Starvation if non-compliance!
Originally Posted in 'Vote here for an Ag-Pilot Forum'
It's DEFINITELY time we had our own forum.
If ever there was a group of pilots that needed a venue to discuss issues that concern us ie; the reason we've been having so many expensive and lethal accidents this season.....Its us. Ag pilots.
PPRune was conceived originally for airline types to discuss pay issues and company BS because they almost never all got together at one place to do it in person.
And how its grown. There are forums for ALL branches of aviation. Even non-pilot on-lookers for gawds sake. Yet we, who spend our entire working lives helping to feed and clothe all those other forum lurkers, and doing it in single seat machinery isolated as hell a lot of the time, with few other fellow ag-pilots to talk to except maybe the opposition guys (and who's going to believe anything THEY tell you?('')
) have to be content with a sub-thread in D&G Questions. This is an absolute travesty.
What's going on? Is PPRune controlled by chemical-phobic environmentalist city dwellers in denial about the true source of just about every damn thing they eat, drink and wear.
Shut down the airlines for a year and people save money on travel ('')
Shut down ag-aviation for a year and watch food and fibre prices sky-rocket.
Get with the program PPRune gods. I know you're UK based. The reason there are no more ag aviators in the UK is because your farms are so small and your fighter pilots kept running into them. That doesn't mean the rest of us are irrelevant.
Give us a crack at this will you? If it isn't being used in 12 months, close it down again.
You've got forums for people who don't quite fit into other forums, you bastards wouldn't eat if it wasn'f for us!