Pilot DAR and others,
Thank you for your kind offer for free flying lessons! Not very practical as we live on different continents.
I hear what you are saying about my coming back again and again with my postings. The reason for this was that I really didn't feel I had an adequate response that made sense to me. One of the best arguments which made me think again actually came from another new PPL!
What made it a fight was the rudeness and the patronising attitude. I wouldn't like to fly with someone like that no matter how experienced. And it means that I don't take you seriously on this forum either.
Telling me I'm going to kill myself, I'm incompetent, I need re-training, I need to be retake my skills test. Are you implying that you know better than the CAA? Careful! How helpful is that in any case? What right do you or any one else have to make that kind of statement? (You don't)
You also give the impression that I need to earn my right to be heard on PPRune. Let me be quite clear. PPRune is not something I need to be able to fly. I do not need the approval of anybody in this forum. If the CAA says I'm safe to fly no one else can take that away. I am able to hire aircraft because my flying club does not have any concern whatsoever about my flying. Other clubs will hire me aircraft on the strength of a check-out - not by what is written in an internet column.
If you want new pilots to join you in discussion then be a decent human being and welcome them. If they say something you disagree with then answer from your experience and in a respectful way. Being sarcastic, rude, patronising is not the way to do it.
It is YOU who needs to earn the right to be heard. And you have to do that with each and every person you encounter.
It's also a lot of nonsense that I wrote stuff that indicated I was unsafe to fly - so why did you have to exaggerate like you did? Standing between a pilot in a fit of rage, drunk or whatever is not in the same category at all.
On the subject of publications - well one realises that they may not be 100% accurate - but at least they have been through a screening process and that can be held libel for what they write. The internet is responsible to no one.
Last edited by DavidHoul52; 21st September 2008 at 18:40.