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Like others here, I send my congratulations to IO540. He has really taken a lot of his time to share his wealth of knowledge and experience to all. His posts are very interesting to read and invaluable to the pilot community. From aircraft ownership and maintenance to flying tips and techniques, to flight planning, weather planning and safety. So a huge thank you! 
In a constructive spirit, my only criticism of him is that when it comes to areas of advocacy he can turn a little bit defeatist and make some things seem much harder than they really are to achieve.
But overall, I have no hesitation in recommending him for the next round of the UK's CAA General Aviation Safety Awards and to nominate him for a senior position in AOPA if he is not already on there.
In a constructive spirit, my only criticism of him is that when it comes to areas of advocacy he can turn a little bit defeatist and make some things seem much harder than they really are to achieve.
But overall, I have no hesitation in recommending him for the next round of the UK's CAA General Aviation Safety Awards and to nominate him for a senior position in AOPA if he is not already on there.
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ADVOCACY
active support of an idea or cause etc.; especially the act of pleading or arguing for something
active support of an idea or cause etc.; especially the act of pleading or arguing for something
Sadly reading the CAA Bulletin the CAA are allowing N reg to 2014 dont hold out much chance of a Bi Lateral agreement ever coming into place and are literally stating game up after that.
IMCR too will no longer exist other than those who hold one will be able to continue its privalages but the rating itself will be gone.
As for the EASA PPL IR? what a con trick by EASA all the way through.
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I think IO should chair one of the GA organisations as we'd get a lot done then 
Would get my vote anyway.....
There are two types of poster on Pprune...those who know what they are talking about due to their own experiences (the likes of IO, Pace, Fuji to name a few...), and those that want us to think that they know what they are talking about but don't really... The former group have been very helpful over the past years, and IO's private website where he writes up his experiences have helped me a lot....and recently we managed to get our CofA issued thanks to one of his contacts
Would get my vote anyway.....There are two types of poster on Pprune...those who know what they are talking about due to their own experiences (the likes of IO, Pace, Fuji to name a few...), and those that want us to think that they know what they are talking about but don't really
... The former group have been very helpful over the past years, and IO's private website where he writes up his experiences have helped me a lot....and recently we managed to get our CofA issued thanks to one of his contacts
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Congrats to IO!
Englishal, I agree that there are posters who know what they are talking about, that many can learn from them and that IO is undoubtedly in this category. I hold yourself in this category too from what I have seen. However, to say there are 2 distinct categories only is probably not right. I certainly do not put myself in the category where I have a great deal to offer people at this stage, however I also have no intention of trying to make others believe that my knowledge of aviation or otherwise exceeds reality. You see?
There are a spectrum of posters from those with extensive knowledge and experience with more to offer than to learn from being here to those inexperienced ones with a lot to learn (everyone has been/will be there at some point!). You'll always get those who think their standing is higher than it is but just because someone is not in the first category, doesn't put them in the second.
Anyway, apologies for the drift.
Back to IO..........
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Englishal, I agree that there are posters who know what they are talking about, that many can learn from them and that IO is undoubtedly in this category. I hold yourself in this category too from what I have seen. However, to say there are 2 distinct categories only is probably not right. I certainly do not put myself in the category where I have a great deal to offer people at this stage, however I also have no intention of trying to make others believe that my knowledge of aviation or otherwise exceeds reality. You see?
There are a spectrum of posters from those with extensive knowledge and experience with more to offer than to learn from being here to those inexperienced ones with a lot to learn (everyone has been/will be there at some point!). You'll always get those who think their standing is higher than it is but just because someone is not in the first category, doesn't put them in the second.
Anyway, apologies for the drift.
Back to IO..........
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I hold yourself in this category too from what I have seen
You are right of course, everyone can add a little of their own experiences which people hopefully learn off. I have learned shed loads from these forums, but one must be very careful to filter out those who "give the impression" that they are a shuttle pilot who know everything, and those who really are a shuttle pilot.
I remember in Earnst K Gann's book Fate is the Hunter, he recounts one flight back from Hawaii. He's been flying with this FO for a while now, and this time he gives control to the FO. His flying is awful and he is quite worried by it. Transpires later that this chap didn't even hold a pilot licence and had just blagged his way in!
I am sure there are a few of those on these boards.....
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I 100% Agree with you. Different people bring different talents to the table. Some bring intricate detail, some bring a lot of practical experience, some bring legal knowledge. some bring engineering knowledge, some bring instructional knowledge etc etc etc.
Some come here more to teach others come here more to Learn, but its surprising how often the teachers learn and the learners teach.
Often you can think you know the answer and push that in the forum. You can get to a point that you realise that you didnt know the answer or did but in a blinkered way! or that you were seeing the solution from the wrong angle and not from the angle that another views it.
But thats the beauty of these forums we are all here to learn and all here to conribute in our own ways.
When I was involved in flight sim development we had forums too. We had a guy who pretended to be an airline pilot. His detail was amazing and we all believed he flew a 747 until a few obvious holes appeared.
He turned out to be a 13 year old kid who had amazing talents at googling.Yet at least his googling researched a lot of answers for the rest of us so why knock him
The real deals shine through and I could name many who I admire and listen to in these forums.
Its the Willy waving that ruins things. We all make mistakes but there are those who jump on those mistakes to highlight their own superior knowledge and their own percieved perfection that is sickening.
You cannot let a mistake go because that would be equally wrong but there are ways of rectifying those mistakes which are respectful and diplomatic without all the willy waving.
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I 100% Agree with you. Different people bring different talents to the table. Some bring intricate detail, some bring a lot of practical experience, some bring legal knowledge. some bring engineering knowledge, some bring instructional knowledge etc etc etc.
Some come here more to teach others come here more to Learn, but its surprising how often the teachers learn and the learners teach.
Often you can think you know the answer and push that in the forum. You can get to a point that you realise that you didnt know the answer or did but in a blinkered way! or that you were seeing the solution from the wrong angle and not from the angle that another views it.
But thats the beauty of these forums we are all here to learn and all here to conribute in our own ways.
When I was involved in flight sim development we had forums too. We had a guy who pretended to be an airline pilot. His detail was amazing and we all believed he flew a 747 until a few obvious holes appeared.
He turned out to be a 13 year old kid who had amazing talents at googling.Yet at least his googling researched a lot of answers for the rest of us so why knock him
The real deals shine through and I could name many who I admire and listen to in these forums.Its the Willy waving that ruins things. We all make mistakes but there are those who jump on those mistakes to highlight their own superior knowledge and their own percieved perfection that is sickening.
You cannot let a mistake go because that would be equally wrong but there are ways of rectifying those mistakes which are respectful and diplomatic without all the willy waving.
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I was just looking at some of the other posters on thsi thread.
Whirlygig
- has done pretty well, which is good to see. Well done Whirls. I dont think she posts any where near as much as she once did - sustaining the level of posting activity necessary to elivate to IO540s position is indeed an accomplishment in itself.
Pace
- well I wonder where your own posting record will be in a years time.
Whirlygig
- has done pretty well, which is good to see. Well done Whirls. I dont think she posts any where near as much as she once did - sustaining the level of posting activity necessary to elivate to IO540s position is indeed an accomplishment in itself.
Pace
- well I wonder where your own posting record will be in a years time.
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Thank you all for the kind comments 
but as I said earlier, I am not the top poster here. Beagle is over 17k posts.
A lot of people have left, but that is just normal and moreover there is a general drift of old-timers away from forums because to a large degree most things have been said already.
What I'd like is to keep this forum useful to others. That is the main use, and is the only sustainable use of it because there aren't all that many topics to talk about.
The other way to keep a forum going is to turn it into a cliquey pub (like some are) and that would be a shame because those with something interesting to say will definitely depart when that happens. I would certainly clear off because I don't need the internet to "live".
There was Whirlygig and Whirlybird - two different women.
but as I said earlier, I am not the top poster here. Beagle is over 17k posts.A lot of people have left, but that is just normal and moreover there is a general drift of old-timers away from forums because to a large degree most things have been said already.
What I'd like is to keep this forum useful to others. That is the main use, and is the only sustainable use of it because there aren't all that many topics to talk about.
The other way to keep a forum going is to turn it into a cliquey pub (like some are) and that would be a shame because those with something interesting to say will definitely depart when that happens. I would certainly clear off because I don't need the internet to "live".
There was Whirlygig and Whirlybird - two different women.
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Have to agree there, re Whirls and Whirly. Both sadly missed here - I enjoyed their common sense, experience, modesty and humour. And G-EMMA was shaping up in that mould too, until her sudden, unexplained departure.
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Englishal and Pace, I'm very much in agreement! I suppose to a certain extent it's all about sifting the nonsense from the some-sense and the sense! That in itself takes some experience I suppose.
Very welcome.... true story
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now I am embarassed...but thanks ! 
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I doubt I will catch up 10540
My start date 2001 and 1900 posts
10540 start 2003 and 12000 posts
I thought I was high with 1900 ?
Pace
I doubt I will catch up 10540
My start date 2001 and 1900 posts
10540 start 2003 and 12000 posts
I thought I was high with 1900 ?
Pace
