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Yes, the standard and quality of posts has dropped since around April 2005.
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I should be out mowing the lawn, but have just caught up with this most interesting thread.
I value PP for what it is and for what it gives the users, be they extremists or not! Of course there is much bar talk and you just have to take that for what it is, but on the other hand there is a lot of good stuff and it is always a good source of information (I won't say "news").
I tend to be a more serious poster and that reflects in my posts, but have been here for some time and enjoy the natter - one just has to pick and choose I guess.
I see that Gaunty has had a few mentions, but he was for some time the mod for these forums. And at one stage we had 4 for this part of the world, which I thought was good, but obviously made work for the mods and used up bandwidth.
The only thing that still gets me from time to time is when posts are moved without apparent reason and the mod's don't say why, especially when it is airline related and in reporting points. But it is their BB and we just have to accept that I guess.
Good work TW....
I value PP for what it is and for what it gives the users, be they extremists or not! Of course there is much bar talk and you just have to take that for what it is, but on the other hand there is a lot of good stuff and it is always a good source of information (I won't say "news").
I tend to be a more serious poster and that reflects in my posts, but have been here for some time and enjoy the natter - one just has to pick and choose I guess.
I see that Gaunty has had a few mentions, but he was for some time the mod for these forums. And at one stage we had 4 for this part of the world, which I thought was good, but obviously made work for the mods and used up bandwidth.
The only thing that still gets me from time to time is when posts are moved without apparent reason and the mod's don't say why, especially when it is airline related and in reporting points. But it is their BB and we just have to accept that I guess.
Good work TW....
I think there should be special mention of those PPruners who have been threatened with legal action by other PPruners ... and I'm proud to be part of that club.
Some take PPrune vewy, vewy sewiously
Some take PPrune vewy, vewy sewiously
1998 join for me. Still on my original user name even through the crashes. Lost about 1300 posts in one of them though. Don't care about the trivial, but a bit of a bummer about the technical ones.
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Older, Wiser, Smarter
Still here Tail Wheel, Troppo.........Just time constrained and "Better to have people think you are a fool than open your mouth and prove it"
Come in and read every now and then but tend to run outa time before I get thru most Threads.........
Come in and read every now and then but tend to run outa time before I get thru most Threads.........
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Aaaaahh me and like a few of us around here, I thought I would be kicking back on my Nordhaven 67 doing a bit of passagemaking with Mrs gaunty and playing with the grandkids (2 now and one due on Monday).
But then the GFC arrives almost the very day I start a brand new business, ooops, I am working harder than I did when I was a callow yoof and we are in good shape with a whole new way of doing business, the old way got trashed in Oct 2007. We actually knew it was coming but our past experience suggested the timing was right, out of great adversity comes great opportunity.
Although my peers will know that the judicious application of age, experience, rat cunning and guile usually overcomes the exuberance of yoof.
PPPRune has been an interesting 10 years it maybe more, number of posts? and then there was the crash of 2000, never was a target just a measure of engagement. A lot fun and some very funny, very erudite folks and straight talkers until a social climber of the worst kind Super Mod bowing to some bullsh!t from a somtime meddler screwed the pooch.
The day the music died.
Many of you will never know of the influence that D & G folk used to have in Canberra circles. Several really really dumb agenda fraudulently run were exposed rollled back and their authors run out of town, and so it goes. You knew this was so when the alphabet orgs and meddlers spent nearly as much time trying to discredit PPRune as they should have been spending getting on with their bizarre agenda.
I've popped in from time to time, but time and tide with the GFC and stuff have prevailed and as they say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. next year is going to be great, different but great, those who have been through these times before some of us oldies (its the 5th for me) know that that apart from knowing what is going to happen next and the pain, the real benefit is that it flushes out the weak and the ill conceived dreamers. Nothing wrong with dreamers as long as they have a bankable business plan.
On another note, the documentation is in and the auditors arrive from the US in Feb to complete our IS-BAO accreditation. We will then hold the highest level of aviation accreditation possible and one of only around 200 worldwide but growing companies that do. The list is impressive. www.ibac.org
In the meantime if I am about to be inundated with grandkinder from the ES and my latest so If I dont get back before Christmas have a very happy one and remember nothing and I mean nothing is more imortant than family, not even aviation.
Have a good one all.
But then the GFC arrives almost the very day I start a brand new business, ooops, I am working harder than I did when I was a callow yoof and we are in good shape with a whole new way of doing business, the old way got trashed in Oct 2007. We actually knew it was coming but our past experience suggested the timing was right, out of great adversity comes great opportunity.
Although my peers will know that the judicious application of age, experience, rat cunning and guile usually overcomes the exuberance of yoof.
PPPRune has been an interesting 10 years it maybe more, number of posts? and then there was the crash of 2000, never was a target just a measure of engagement. A lot fun and some very funny, very erudite folks and straight talkers until a social climber of the worst kind Super Mod bowing to some bullsh!t from a somtime meddler screwed the pooch.
The day the music died.
Many of you will never know of the influence that D & G folk used to have in Canberra circles. Several really really dumb agenda fraudulently run were exposed rollled back and their authors run out of town, and so it goes. You knew this was so when the alphabet orgs and meddlers spent nearly as much time trying to discredit PPRune as they should have been spending getting on with their bizarre agenda.
I've popped in from time to time, but time and tide with the GFC and stuff have prevailed and as they say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. next year is going to be great, different but great, those who have been through these times before some of us oldies (its the 5th for me) know that that apart from knowing what is going to happen next and the pain, the real benefit is that it flushes out the weak and the ill conceived dreamers. Nothing wrong with dreamers as long as they have a bankable business plan.
On another note, the documentation is in and the auditors arrive from the US in Feb to complete our IS-BAO accreditation. We will then hold the highest level of aviation accreditation possible and one of only around 200 worldwide but growing companies that do. The list is impressive. www.ibac.org
In the meantime if I am about to be inundated with grandkinder from the ES and my latest so If I dont get back before Christmas have a very happy one and remember nothing and I mean nothing is more imortant than family, not even aviation.
Have a good one all.
Silly Old Git
Gaunty
Best wishes for the festive season and New Year
I'm surprised that somebody over Perth way hasn't invented a tablet you can add to your planes fuel tank to cut carbon emissions?
TeePee
Best wishes for the festive season and New Year
I'm surprised that somebody over Perth way hasn't invented a tablet you can add to your planes fuel tank to cut carbon emissions?
TeePee
Hi gaunty, and all the others!
Some memories and old names here then. I've met the original dunnunder mod, Southern Comfort - who proved that (certainly at that time) D&G needed more than one mod, for 24 hour coverage to stop the litigation threats!
Post counts became pointless when Danny amused himself in 2000 or so by upping some to 10,000+, and dropping others to zero. My actual count is too embarrassing to mention.
Fond memories of "the panel" as well.
What's that, dear .... OH! nothing ... just PPRuNing, ya know ..
Some memories and old names here then. I've met the original dunnunder mod, Southern Comfort - who proved that (certainly at that time) D&G needed more than one mod, for 24 hour coverage to stop the litigation threats!
Post counts became pointless when Danny amused himself in 2000 or so by upping some to 10,000+, and dropping others to zero. My actual count is too embarrassing to mention.
Fond memories of "the panel" as well.
What's that, dear .... OH! nothing ... just PPRuNing, ya know ..
PPRuNe Handmaiden
Yep, and when jazzi posted a little while ago she was informed by a UK based moderator that "she was no longer welcome". So she left. 
However, she's alive and well in Cairns.
CaptainIFsnailtrails was a legend. Not only did he possess a wit that was pretty much unbeaten, his Techlog posts were well worth a read. One senior B744 TRE at BA said that Snaily's weather radar post was the best he'd ever seen on "how it works and how to make it work for you". Alas, Snaily's gone.
Slasher does come close to Snaily. I wish he'd post (any where!) more often.
As for Southern Comfort
However, she's alive and well in Cairns. CaptainIFsnailtrails was a legend. Not only did he possess a wit that was pretty much unbeaten, his Techlog posts were well worth a read. One senior B744 TRE at BA said that Snaily's weather radar post was the best he'd ever seen on "how it works and how to make it work for you". Alas, Snaily's gone.
Slasher does come close to Snaily. I wish he'd post (any where!) more often.
As for Southern Comfort
Ah Gaunty . . .. just when we feared the worse with your prolonged silence, up you pop with the inspiring news that you have reinvented yourself and intend to set the pace again in the swampland you know with the certainty of an old gynae's grope.
May the season of goodwill and wide gates of religious hypocrisy pass comfortably. And may for have many a fond embrace in the bosum of your . . ..
As Vonnegut ('Slaughter House 5' ) , oft reminded us. . . 'and so it goes' . .
'Oh, I want to be in that number . . ..'
May the season of goodwill and wide gates of religious hypocrisy pass comfortably. And may for have many a fond embrace in the bosum of your . . ..
As Vonnegut ('Slaughter House 5' ) , oft reminded us. . . 'and so it goes' . .
'Oh, I want to be in that number . . ..'
