IO540s thread on leaving the forum

[Fuji Abound]

It is good to see a little renewed interest in various topics on PPRuNe.

However it has made me realise one of the reasons I get quite frustrated. There are some very interesting threads about EASA at the momement but I find when I read some of the contributions it is as if people cant be bothered to read, digest or understand what has been said before (on the same thread). The discussion ends up going round in circles covering the same ground. The fact is I think that just ends up detracting from the debate which is a shame and makes the forum less interesting (and more frustrating).

If I could make just one plea which I think would be to the benefit of the forum - it would be that we all at least make some effort to follow the thread.

[airpolice]

Has anyone else noticed that some people just post a message in a thread without reading the preceding mesages and making an effort to understand where the thread is heading?

Not in a thread hijacking way, just as a result of not reading earlier posts on the same subject.:rolleyes:

[wsmempson]

Sorry, I've clearly had my eye off the ball - but what thread are you referring to? I've clearly missed this somehow?

[wsmempson]

Sorry, this has just swum into focus.

You mean the thread on "Pilots leaving the forum" as posted by IO540 - as opposed to "IO540's thread on leaving the forum", which means something altogether different! It would be a huge shame to lose IO540....

I totally agree about people simply posting their halfpenny worth after reading the 1st post, without reading the following discussion. Simply very boring willy waving.

[Duchess_Driver]

Pilots Willy Waving?......never in a million years! (just to prove I read the last post!)

[IO540]

Sorry guys; I am not leaving just yet ;)

[Lister Noble]

Good news:)

[J.A.F.O.]

Has anyone else noticed that some people just post a message in a thread without reading the preceding mesages and making an effort to understand where the thread is heading?

Anyway, why did IO540 leave the forum?
:E

[S-Works]

Has IO left the forum? My life would be empty and meaningless without him to torture. I vote we start a number 10 petition 'Bring IO540 back!'.

[wsmempson]

On the subject of pilots willy-waving, can I humbly suggest this;

YouTube - Top Gun was a Gay Movie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrR7L-qRYIY&feature=related)
;)

[hatzflyer]

Who was IO540 ? Why did BoseX torture him ?
I thought threads was what bros wear innit?
What day is it ?
Where's me pills?

[vanHorck]

A real and present threat on IO leaving? Or was it a real and present treat? Ah no, it s just a real and present thread on PPRUNE....

:ugh:

:ok:

[airpolice]

JAFO, I noticed that too, but I am more concerned about this requirement to re register Nreg stuff every three years!

[stiknruda]

FANTASTIC NEWS

FNG and MONOCOCK are back - I don't need to read the detail, I'm a pilot FFS!:E:E

[ShyTorque]

Anyone seen IO540 lately?

[Fuji Abound]

Hmmmmm :) not quite what I had in mind but it has turned out far more entertaining.

[n5296s]

This is terrible. IO540 is leaving the forum and I have only just arrived. And I had something I wanted to tell him. You see, a funny thing happened on the way to the forum - I ran into Frankie Howerd.

[24Carrot]

Has Elvis left the building yet?

[supersani]

Having lurked for months, nay years, I'm making my first post to put my name to the petition to stop IO540 from being banned from the forum.

I understand he/she is great and has been bullied and harassed by a bunch of B******s who should be shot/tasered/tagged/forgiven.

[airpolice]

As I wandered along a "corridor of power" this afternoon, I heard a story that made me take notice.

Lord Beagle is going to put the EASA guys on the back foot by mentioning the war, and that should make them lift the requirement for IO450 to get new medical.


IO450 should be back with us shortly.

[Pilot DAR]

I think that IO 540 lost his keys while he was inspecting his prop, to be certain that he would never have to worry about having a very very lucky escape, should he need to apply full power while on an bolter after his try at landing on an aircraft carrier. Later, IO will get Guppy's advice on how you enter a Socata in an air race in Edinburgh controlled airspace, while making nice with the Scot air traffic controllers.

If IO doesn't find his keys, and listen to Guppy's advice, Mary will try to talk him into getting back into gliding. In a glider, he won't have to worry about keys, prop overspeeds, short aircraft carrier decks, or putting gas into a PA46, 310P or 350P. An the circle goes 'round....

I'm confident that IO is on another amazing cross country, to be envied by those of us on the left side of the Atlantic....

[24Carrot]

Thank God you didn't mention the N-reg. I may have done earlier, but I think I got away with it...

[IO540]

Very funny :)

I was busy avoiding some small arms fire ;)

BTW I have both CAA and FAA Class 1 medicals.

[airpolice]

I get really pissed off with people who barge into a thread with irrelevant cack.

IO540, what's your medical status or where you have been got to do with anything?

No wonder some of the more experienced ppruners are leaving when folk who should know better keep making the thread drift off in odd directions.

With you distracting us with tales of medicals and gunfire, how are we supposed to have a serious debate about......er......well.....whatever it was that this thread was about?

[S-Works]

BTW I have both CAA and FAA Class 1 medicals.

Must take some keeping current at your age...... ;);)

Does anyone have a M8 SS nyloc nut?

[Fuji Abound]

Does anyone have a M8 SS nyloc nut?

I hope you are not thinking of locking this thread only I can do that.

[IO540]

I've got one here. 20p, or £2.50 with an 8130-3, or £35 with an EASA-1 form.

[stickandrudderman]

Not only is IO540 back, but his thread about posters leaving the forum has actually stimulated some previously regular (not in the Biblical sense) posters to return, including wsmempson with his superb wit which cuts through the BS "like an axe to the frozen sea"!

[airpolice]

including wsmempson with his superb wit

Stik, has wsmempson posted? I don't see it!

[ShyTorque]

I've heard a rumour that IO540 is leaving. Anyone know anything?

[airpolice]

I've searched around and there's no mention of it.

[airpolice]

I read this somewhere recently, but I can't recall where. So I had a look through the stickies and all the threads on the forum but there's no trace.


Can anyone confirm this is actually a rumour or did I dream this?

I am discounting the other, scary, possibilty, that it is a fact, since I can't really imagine a fact being posted on here.

[ShyTorque]

Someone should start a thread on it.

[airpolice]

Shy, that's the funniest response yet, and so quick!
:D

[vanHorck]

ohhhhh ok then....


There is a search facility here on the forum.

If you want to know if you should log IMC instruction as PUT or P1S or f you're curious about IO540 thinking of leaving this forum to set up a commercially viable blog to which Bose-X will be honorary member please use said facility...

Only intelligent questions which have not been asked before will be answered by us, gods of PPRUNE's sky

:ok:

[ShyTorque]

There is a search facility here on the forum.

I've searched everywhere for this facility...

[Fuji Abound]

Mention of what?

[blueandwhite]

Who is (was) IO540 - never heard of him and I read this thread very carfullly

:ugh:

[airpolice]

I found a search facility on this site, I wish someone had told me about that.

Trouble is, I don't know what IO540's username is so I can't search for him.

[airpolice]

Blue and white, you are in the wrong thread!

http://www.pprune.org/jet-blast/429210-intercepts-russian-aircraft-meddling-near-our-airspace-2.html#post5969268

is where you need to look!

[IO540]

Not sure what this is about. I never said I was leaving.

[blueandwhite]

Ahhhhh!

Now I understand

[blueandwhite]

Who said that?

[eharding]

I found a search facility on this site, I wish someone had told me about that.

Trouble is, I don't know what IO540's username is so I can't search for him.

Has anyone seen his leaving card? - I haven't signed it yet.....or donated to the leaving present fund.

Anyone got change for a fiver?

[funfly]

is it right that IO540 is leaving then?

[airpolice]

IO540 said


Not sure what this is about. I never said I was leaving.


Nevertheless, this is a rumour site and he will need to leave. Now that we have three distinct threads on the subject and just about everyone in ppruneland knows about it, he needs to leave.

Back to the point, Perth is a really nice airfield, but I wish the Motorway got a bit closer to the entrance.

[funfly]

I had an IO 540 once but sold it (with the aircraft) at least I think it was a 540;)

[airpolice]

Funfly, where did you hear that?

News to me.

Wow, Gosh, Jings, Crivens, somebody help his Bob!



Sorry for the thread drift,, let's get back on track here.


How many mistakes have been found in the latest half mil map sofar?

[airpolice]

I had a Volvo 440 and it was really nice. Went from Uxbridge to Leeming and the fuel guage hardly moved.

I think the RAC truck used a lot of fuel, but the Volvo was fine once it got a new Alternator.

What we need on here is a search facility.

[Keef]

Crivens? What have you been reading? Was it about IO540?

[airpolice]

No, IO540 wasn't mentioned.

What on earth made you think of him?

[Keef]

He is rarely out of my mind. But don't worry: I'll be OK.

Ooooh - is that the time? I have to get up in the morning!

[mary meagher]

Thanks, Pilot DAR, nice to know you read my posts, which are not only on gliding, as you will see if you refer to the current thread on Flying in Florida....(I can't wait to see the California boys rise to the bait!}

Love and Kisses, from the Witch of the West and her broomstick, G-OFER.

[vanHorck]

Has Mary a relationship with IO540? Or is he leaving? Perhaps it's a temporary ban....

[IO540]

If Mary is into gliding, she will already be divorced and remarried (to somebody in the gliding club) :)

[vanHorck]

You must be pulling my glider!

[vanHorck]

There is a rumour that Bose-X has committed to stopping the terror towards IO540...

PPRUNE is never going to be the same again....

(Edited in view of not-so-funny thread currently running)

[Aerial Chauffeur]

Does anyone know what licenses Bose-X has (only the legally obtained ones)

He's definitely type rated on Concorde and the Space Shuttle.

[Artistic Intention]

We could do with a search facility on here :p

[Aerial Chauffeur]

I'm thinking of getting an FAA licence based on my UK PPL. How would I go about doing this? :p

Search feature? What? :\

[fisbangwollop]

Just read the thread.....think I am now losing the will to live, better head off to work to get my sense's back.....will I find a Crunchie waiting??? :cool::cool::cool: