Originally Posted by
localflighteast
I'm slowly plodding away at my PPL. I've gotten some good advice and encouragement from PPRUNE.
I hope some day I'll be able to pay it back. Like others have said, I've run away quietly sobbing from AvCanada (only joking) because for a newbie the constant
"you're crap"
"Your instructor is crap"
"no one except me and a few elite others know how to fly nowadays"
gets really disheartening , really quickly for a newcomer.
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Last year the Avcanada moderators starting getting serious about cracking down on posters who were only interested in insulting and demeaning others. This caused the departure of several well known troublemakers. Since then I think the site has improved considerably although I admit, in general, pprune is a still a bit more civil.
However the flight training forum in Avcanada is IMO much better than the one in pprune. It is very active and has many threads which discuss practical flying matters in a useful way.
Also Pilot DAR now regularly posts on Avcanada.