By dear old
Binos in 2004 -
I have maintained for a long time that an outsider who didn't know any Australian pilots, and who formed his/her opinions based purely on what they read in the D&G forum would come to the conclusion that the vast majority of pilots are insular, argumentative, back-stabbing, intolerant, egotistical, narrow minded know-alls.
What a shame that is. I have met so many great people in aviation over the years, and had many memorable, err, social interactions with them. We are fortunate to work in a field which has so much potential for camaraderie, yet we seem determined to play a horrible game of one-upmanship online.
At one end of the spectrum there are to be found those men and women in whose friendship you may rejoice and in whose wise heads much true lore of the air resides. And that rare commodity,
common sense. And at the other, people more akin by nature to the plague carrying rat than any civilised example of
homo sapiens. ( And were this a part of the sermon for today, then a reference to Hebrews 13.8 would not be out of place, eh MTR?)