Thank you to all those
professional pilots who have clarified the reasons for the incident and the subsequent decision to continue to destination. Those posters who insist on 'quarterbacking', very obviously with no real experience of our jobs, only serve to show themselves up with their ill thought through posts and lack of real knowledge other than that gleaned from computer games, books and Discovery Wings.
I am very tempted to introduce a rating system. This system could be applied to individuals which will show the readership whether the poster is considered to be knowledgeable, if not experienced in airline operations and procedures. There could also be another rating for posters who are some of the many pretenders who voice off on here with their ill informed and very obvious, to us airline pilots and crews, arguments based on nothing but ill informed speculation and PC simulator 'experience'.
The vast majority of people quite rightly enter the discussions with questions as many of the more obscure and mundane aspects of our jobs are not that obvious. It is the few amateurs or those posters who have ego's that can't be satisfied because whilst their claims to members of our fraternity ring hollow, they remove all doubt as soon as they click the 'submit' button!
