What prompted it was an idle conversation the other day. I was talking about the soon to be introduction of the semi circular rule (always reminds me of semi circular canal when I hear it) and I mentioned that I like to cruise above the muck on a nice day.
'Ah, using the quadrantals then' said the other fluger.
'No, only if I'm IFR, if it's VFR above broken crud I just fly whatever is convenient' I retorted.
There then followed a bizzare conversation in which I said it was pointless being on quadrantals on VFR because it depends what you have set on the subscale against his argument that it was good airmanship to fly quadrantal even if VFR.
It wasn't a long conversation because a woman with long legs hove into view.