Recurrent threads that make you lose your will to live
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Clearly some people here know each other and live locally to each other, so they have the option of posting here, or going to the pub together, but they prefer to chat via the internet.
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I have been using this forum for a while now and I find it a useful place for a young PPL to get some information.
I do usually use the search facility first and recently have found far too many repeat threads.
Does anyone else bother to use the search?
This would save a lot of band width
Also many experienced forumites keep on repeating answers instead of telling people that this has gone before.
Where are the mods in all this. they were quick enough to condem FNG for his charity thread.
Why not just link a repeat thread to one of a similar theme.
Flying USA etc, how many more?
Ken
I do usually use the search facility first and recently have found far too many repeat threads.
Does anyone else bother to use the search?
This would save a lot of band width
Also many experienced forumites keep on repeating answers instead of telling people that this has gone before.
Where are the mods in all this. they were quick enough to condem FNG for his charity thread.
Why not just link a repeat thread to one of a similar theme.
Flying USA etc, how many more?
Ken
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Hi Locksmith. A reply for you questions.......
It is you lot, the users of this forum who post these threads, you should be asking your fellow readers why they do this.........
Too few actually. Repeat threads are there because not enough people use the search function. If they did, no repeat threads..!!
Bandwidth is not an issue at this moment.
Again, this is something you should be asking to the people who answer these questions. Quite a lot of questions have similar answers too them but may have the additional bit of info added recently for example.
Clearly you didn't read why that thread was locked. It was because a few people complained about its being there. It wasn't 'the mods' who condemed FNG for that, it was some users of this forum. Enough said on that subject now, lets not get back into the ins-and-outs of that.
Simply because as we all know, things constantly change in aviation, all the time there are rule changes etc especially flying in the USA.
Hope this has been an ok enough amswer for you, if you would like to discuss anything here then please PM me and I will be more than happy to contine answering any questions you may have.
Brl.
I do usually use the search facility first and recently have found far too many repeat threads.
Does anyone else bother to use the search?
Bandwidth is not an issue at this moment.
Also many experienced forumites keep on repeating answers instead of telling people that this has gone before.
Where are the mods in all this. they were quick enough to condem FNG for his charity thread.
Why not just link a repeat thread to one of a similar theme.
Flying USA etc, how many more?
Flying USA etc, how many more?
Hope this has been an ok enough amswer for you, if you would like to discuss anything here then please PM me and I will be more than happy to contine answering any questions you may have.
Brl.
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Hi Locksmith, you will no doubt observe your original posting has been tagged onto this thread and deleted from the forum as you had posted
Begs the question why hey? maybe it's only free speech when it suits, do keep us upto date with your flying, cheers.
Begs the question why hey? maybe it's only free speech when it suits, do keep us upto date with your flying, cheers.
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Holdposition I think locksmith may have deleted his own thread and reinserted same/similar contents into this one after slim_slag pointed-out the irony of this thread's existence... (Check the time of the posts)
But don't let that stop the discussion about nepotism all over again 
But don't let that stop the discussion about nepotism all over again
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rustle, it looks like that is what happened to locksmiths thread and if that the case I stand corrected.
Thankyou for your invite to discuss re other matters but I didn't post that for further debate, as clearly there is no need whatsoever.
Thankyou for your invite to discuss re other matters but I didn't post that for further debate, as clearly there is no need whatsoever.
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Postings of the following type
A asks for suggestions for somewhere to fly to that meets some non-business criteria.
B posts saying 'Wonderfield-in-the-Wold' is great and you will enjoy visiting it.
Then comes the 'watch your speed on the approach, if flying a retractable make sure the wheels are down before you land, ensure the landing is as close to the threshold as possible, my aunt Jemima's cottage at the end of downwind for xx makes a great landmark for turning base, its the one with the hollyhocks.......'
A asks for suggestions for somewhere to fly to that meets some non-business criteria.
B posts saying 'Wonderfield-in-the-Wold' is great and you will enjoy visiting it.
Then comes the 'watch your speed on the approach, if flying a retractable make sure the wheels are down before you land, ensure the landing is as close to the threshold as possible, my aunt Jemima's cottage at the end of downwind for xx makes a great landmark for turning base, its the one with the hollyhocks.......'
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In the words of Alan Partridge: "This Country!"
i.e. Only the British can post so many repetitive moaning posts complaining about other people's repetitive posts.
If a post does not interest anyone it gets no replies and fairly quickly falls off the bottom of the thread list.
Some people post because they are excited, such as the above slated 'I went up on Sunday and burnts holes in the sky, landing exactly where I took off from'. Flying is exciting and someone might want to share their excitement with others who want to reply about the fun day's flying they've had too.
The title gives you some idea of what the thread is going to be about, so if it doesn't interest you and i quote "makes you lose your will to live" (how pathetic), then don't read it!
I agree with IO540.
Crikey.
i.e. Only the British can post so many repetitive moaning posts complaining about other people's repetitive posts.
If a post does not interest anyone it gets no replies and fairly quickly falls off the bottom of the thread list.
Some people post because they are excited, such as the above slated 'I went up on Sunday and burnts holes in the sky, landing exactly where I took off from'. Flying is exciting and someone might want to share their excitement with others who want to reply about the fun day's flying they've had too.
The title gives you some idea of what the thread is going to be about, so if it doesn't interest you and i quote "makes you lose your will to live" (how pathetic), then don't read it!
I agree with IO540.
Crikey.
