...they pick up on minutae, find a grain of truth from which to extrapolate a grand argument or theory, challenging everything that is offered in rebuttal until the responder tires of the game. To what end? I have read almost all his posts and I believe that SFLY is in no position to offer advice to veteran airline pilots and is certainly in no position to admonish or lecture those who are actually doing the work.
I respect SFLY's 3000 hrs of military turboprop & turboshaft experience, and imagine his high COF method of interaction here is the result of a long, frustrating hunt for work in the commercial sector.
He has been hearing about it for quite a while. Here are comments to a
post of his a year ago:
SFLY
Brew yourself a cup of Camomile tea (in the pot, not cup), put Enya on the iPod, remove slippers, get a foot rub and chill out.
Alternatively, try getting out of bed on the otherside tomorrow morning.
S.F.L.Y., let us old farts reminisce without the newspeak lecture. Like all old farts, we have selective memory, recalling only the good bits, (as everyone should when talking about 'the old days'), and believe me, while doing so, we don't need some young whippersnapper mounting his electronic soapbox to lecture us in 2009 managementspeak.