Originally Posted by lomapaseo
However, views about legal torts are not as widely shared among nations and are typically beyond the scope of aviation professionals to discuss and in my view are not appropriate in this thread
That may be. But was it really a problem of some sort that could not have been solved more politely? Am I, and gpvictor, and bsieker, and 3Ten really so uncontrolled? I have run panel sessions at international conferences and never once come close to taking a microphone away from a speaker.
And have you compared what is said on this thread, by anybody, about anything, with what has been going on with the discussion of a pilot fired for allowing someone on the flight deck, against U.K. DfT regulations? People there seem to be writing anything they want, and there is nobody telling them please to stick to the discussion of U.K. regulations, whether they are to be adhered to, and what management may do with people who willfully break them, and saying that anything else is "off thread", or "hair splitting".
One contributor was "escorted off" this thread for some reason, and is actually one of the most useful information sources I have had about what is going on in Brazil concerning this accident, because he has access to some critical public documents.
Nobody really worries if scissors are used to trim a bit of paper here and there, but it seems to me that fingers are also being lopped off, and I think one could be a little more careful.
PBL