Firstly, robione, you are well out of order and just inserting the word 'allegedly' does not absolve you of responibility for your comments.
Secondly, let me just clarify my position on comments about flight training organisations and mention of them here on PPRuNe. Here at PPRuNe Towers we try to act responsibly with regards to how our bulletin board is used. It is a powerful medium and recognised in the industry as a source of information but that information has to be reconciled with the fact that the poster may be making comments from behind a cloak of anonimity.
Everyone who has registered a Username and posts on this bulletin board has agreed to the rules of the bulletin board. Those of you who are unsure of those rules should go to
http://www.pprune.org/cgibin/Ultimate.cgi?action=agree and read them again.
An important part of that agreement states:
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use this BB to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise violative of any law.</font>
Please also note this bit:
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">We at this BB also reserve the right to reveal your identity (or whatever information we know about you) in the event of a complaint or legal action arising from any message posted by you.</font>
Please understand that criticism is allowed of anyone or organisation and criticism is just that, a critical review based on a personal experience. Criticism in itself is not abuse but too many of you don't seem to be able to differentiate between the meanings. You must also be aware that to stave off threats of litigation that are sometimes received, whether rightly or wrongly we need to know the identity of the person making the post in case there is a complaint about the content and the complainant can be put in touch with the poster and follow up directly with them.
Too many of you lunge into abuse without considering the consequences and too many of you don’t realise that criticism is something completely different. As long as anyones criticism is based on first hand experience and they have lodged with us their real identity then it can go on the forums. We do not want to see the petty follow on types of third party claims which usually start something like
”my mate went to XXX and he said the instructors were cr@p and...” you get my drift?
So, inserting the word ‘allegedly’ does not let you or anyone else off the hook and as far as I am concerned anyone using that has to lodge with us here at PPRuNe not only their own details but also the details of the person they are ‘alledging’ made the comments. If you have been to a particular school and you want to make a criticism, or praise for that matter, identify yourself and provide dates and details of courses you were on. That is acceptable.
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Capt PPRuNe aka Danny Fyne
The Professional Pilots RUmour NEtwork