I think there are valid points all round here . Yes we do all make mistakes , christ I make loads , and learning from them is part of the whole experience and provided we do then all the better . However there can be no excuse for bad airmanship can there . (Hypothetically)On a flight test with an examiner If you flew into a non radio airfield that was operating safety com freq and there were other aircraft about and you just flew in in the manner detailed above , would you pass? I think we all know the answer to that. I would hope that all of us have good airmanship drummed into us during our training , I would like to think that it stays with us , Maybe it does maybe it doesnt . I flew into a grass strip not so long agp, joined downwind . Another craft called joining overhead at roughly the same time . Just as I was about to turn base this aircraft descended in front of me, luckily far enough away not to be a complete danger , but who taught this chap to do overhead joins in that manner or rather at what point did he forget ?
It happens yeh ,mudslinging isnt the answer but I think Gcolyers point was made , it doesnt matter if it wasnt in the right order or the tone in which he said it , it was a point and we should all just nod and say "yep absolutely" unless we have a valid point to contradict it and make it in them manner in which the original post was intended . The last thing we want to do on the private flying forum is start harping on about tone , spelling, grammar etc etc etc as you would find in some of the other forums , we all know what was being said and we should respect what a local pilot is asking , no matter what the tone . IMHO
But what do I know