As we go purple surely we should be looking to cross-fertilise? As more light blue fly from dark blue bases, as all helicopters look the same
etc, then separate forums would make it more difficult to find relevant topics.
Would JPA have been a light blue non-aircrew thread or an aircrew only thread denied professional input?
One question I answered was from deep field and totally non-aircrew however I did have expertise in that area and was able to answer. The thread had precisely 3 messages, question, answer and thank you. Without this polyglot forum it would never have seen the light of day.
returning to the purple bit, it is also good to have the colonial inputs too albeit the forum does seem to be UKAir biased.