Fair play to you Boing for accepting the critisim

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I guess we all say something from time to time, that we think better of later :)

dp

Good of you BM to stand up like that, shows a true man, in fact I did understand what you meant and to some degree agree with you, however, think you will agree you just put it wrong and no shame in that. We need people of your wide experience on here so hope to see you make some more input soon, cheers.

While BM had a fair point, it was aimed at the wrong person.

Easy is displaying good airmanship by using all the available information to plan the flight.

The reason why many pilots are resorting to using PPRUNE members (who may not have any aviation experience or who may provide incorrect or intentionally misleading info) for such guidance is that the training system is turning out pilots who do not have the necessary skills required to plan and execute a short crosscountry to a nearby airfield in controlled airspace.

Having taken their money and shoved these pilots out into the real world, they simply wash their hands.

If this wasn't the case then I am sure that this concientious pilot would in the first place have turned to a local flight instructor for guidance.

Should this pilot get it all wrong on the flight into Liverpool (unlikely but,) what credibility would be given to information obtained from an anomous internet based chat board?

Once again, I say that Easy has displayed good airmanship by doing his/her best to ensure a safe and efficient flight.

What a pity that many other pilots in the same situation simply blaze on in often arrogent ignorance.

Regads,

DFC

Whilst I understand and agree with you DFC, possibly another cause for such queries from relatively inexperienced pilots is simply the fact that Pprune (and other forums) are there, and people get used to asking before looking around to gather the necessary information.

The danger in doing that is, as you say, that they may pick up incorrect, even potentially dangerous or misleading info from well-meaning but misinformed posters.

The solution? Maybe forums should have a specific set of links to official information available as a maintained service.... and then we would all have to discipline ourselves to refer such questions to those links in the first instance.

Trouble is, there are so many links to so many sources of official information... so round we go again, then people who ask the questions want the local knowledge from the local users, because it apparaently condenses what they want to know....

round n round n round n ...... we go !
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