It seems to me that most of the threads I read nowadays are rehashes of stuff I've seen before : but then again, I've been reading this board for 5 or 6 years now, and since an awful lot of the stuff on here is of the "I'm new - which pencil should I buy?" variety, which many of us have seen dozens of times, it's not particularly surprising that the board is often yawn-inducing. And of course, the longer you stick around ...
The reactions to posts are often equally predictable (and mind-numbingly so, sometimes) : with the "I've been flying 80 years, and in
my day ..." camp on one side, and the "100-hours-in-a-Cessna-152-heavy" team on the other. Both keen to impress with their accumulated wisdom, and both equally keen to refuse to acknowledge the extremity of their experience levels whilst dealing with other points of view.
I think the speed with which the personal aggro sometimes starts is quite possibly higher than it used to be : but perhaps that's just the way the world is going (or perhaps I'm just getting older and more crabby - I certainly have less patience with it than I used to !)
It remains a fact that PPRuNe is an awfully useful repository of information for those who fly : a lot of it is crap, but much of it is great. And there are undoubtedly gems from time to time : threads which interest and/or horrify in equal measure (the one based on that poor kid sent out of the circuit on his 2nd solo who then stalled it in will stay with me for a long time) : and at the end of the day, I like aviation and things related to it, and the forum alternatives are meagre to say the least !
I don't really think it's worth getting too precious about this: it's just an internet forum when all said and done - and there's always the "off" button on that monitor !
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