Vertalop
For my 2 cents this forum would have to be the best of type. It has to be optioned as anon, same as any publicly avbl internet chat room.
IMHO it provides excellent mentoring, tech talk, TIC talk, jousting, oh and RUMOURS.
Like days of auld, jousting sometimes results in one being severely displaced from his high horse, if that is the case one has to graciously brush the dust off before rejoining.
Flying is the development of some out of the ordinary manipulative skills both mental and physical where mentoring forms a massive input to thought processes and ultimate safety.
Smart machines/components will not replace that, in fact they may seem to require more mentoring than flight without them, as this forum exhibits of late.
Flying in isteslf is not inherently dangerous, only as stupidly dangerous as you wish to make it, here you can field veiled questions or comments and get qualified answers without getting hurt. Even ply a hidden agenda or two.
Some people operate here on an f’n short fuse, others with grace and candour, the non-de-plumes demonstrate personalities within themselves, like ‘Arm out the window’ or ESP. “Heavy lift R22”, or ‘shy torque’, (yeah? Blush, blush, I’ll bet) etc etc. Mine is rather dull, every one knows what happens above our heads!
From that point of view the voluntary, who’s who? Makes for interesting and sometimes revealing reading.
We all know rule #1, or if not will soon learn; If it works don’t f—- with it.
I vote 10 out of 10, pprune as is how is.