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Old 14th Dec 2002, 01:35
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Kaptin M
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Give us a break, Gnadenburg,
How many Air NZ pilots offered sympathies to ex AN pilots on these pages post collapse?
How many Ansett Australia pilots offered sympathies to the Ansett N.Z. pilots when theirs' turned into a basket case?
How many pilots (full stop) offered sympathy to the CX 49'ers?

Most here are ADULTS - sympathy goes nowhere in funding a replacement job, or paying the continuing bills.

"Poor ******s" is probably about the best you should expect.

Who knows WHO Top End is? He might be a 10 year old out for a juvenile romp on the keyboards.

Pilot suicides - yes.....and other staff as well.
That (suicide) however, is a PERSONAL (but often selfish) self-administered decision.
Many people live on a daily basis with torments and grievances, but realise that suicide would only place an even GREATER burden on those left behind - I guess the exception being a terminal illness.

By the same token, "bleating" as you put it, doesn't curry much favour with Aussies, but it helps to draw everyones' attention to matters that generally may NEED highlighting from time to time.

You, Gnadenburg have your opinion - Ramboflyer his.

And that, my friend, is what PPRuNe is ALL about.
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