No probs r.ockape.
i could take the easy way out and delete the thread or stand, take the criticism and demand better from yourself.
you may have noticed that there are many eminent people on these threads, with much more diversity in their background than mine and many of whom have done it tough. in fact still do.
observing these simple things in life at the helicopter coalface is part of being just dam good enough to be there.
the question is put, do you wish to also put your shoulder to the wheel and stick your chin out for the betterment of standards? or sit back and throw stones whilst the standards that allow many of the accidents that we talk about here go unchanged.
And as far as I am concerned using the standards that people gained from their mentors is fair game.
I perhaps could have mentioned that the "hero" of the thread happened to crash his almost antique aeroplane within 200 metres of my sisters house. that did not colour my comments at all.
cheers tet