While 10540s posting totals are amazing and instigated this thread I was hoping to get more from others here on what motivates their own interest in PPRUNE?
Is it more of an addiction? What makes us post just for the sake of posting
Or cover the same subjects time and time again.
10540 in reality it is probably more than five minutes a posting.
You have to think about your answers research the detail write it. If like me you will probably spend another five minutes changing it correcting grammar or deleting it :{

Pace nb written on I phone so don't expect perfection :)

I couldn't possibly disagree. The subject of this thread is a foreigner and my first language is Spanish. :)

Let me add my own thumbs up to IO540. I've been following his posts for years on several sites. They are always consise, full of readable information. I can believe that each post is an average of 5 mins as I don't think he researches before the post; it is just his acquired knowledge and experience gained through his interest and passion for GA, which I think goes back over 10-12 years.

Clearly, he is one of those people who just love to write. Anyone who has seen his website can see this passion. Really, you won't find this stuff anywhere else. As a fellow TB20 owner, his is an invaluable resource. As far as I'm concerned, his presence is sorely missed on the TB Users Group forum.

Me, I spend my 5 mins reading the forum. However, I've now registered so that I can voice my own appreciation of IO540. People like him are the real stars of online forums.

Pace, what a wonderful way to bring all PPruNers together for a nice round table discussion without any acrimony (so far!) Thank you.

For this budgie pilot, reading anecdotes about real flying events is deeply engrossing. I have a very sympathetic boss who as long as I produce the goods, spares me a few minutes here and there. I suppose the discussion about the politics surrounding our common interest leaves me a bit unenthusiastic but this is because I have no input to make. It’s all a bit out of my recent experience.

Beagle is one of my favourite celebs here – he seems to be the unofficial voice of CAA. I also thoroughly enjoy his contributions in Mil Air and AH&N. My other celebs are IO540 of course, Pace, Pilot DAR, bose X, SNS3Guppy along with a few others who write in a straightforward way and speak their mind. I really admire those who are open to persuasion into taking a different view on a topic. There are others who with their ‘willy waving’, without making their point, just waste my time. I wonder how many other folk think in similar ways?

Nobody is on my ‘ignore’ list yet. (If I was brave enough though, I would be a part-time spelling and grammar policeman!)

To answer your last post Pace, it is an addiction for me and like you, I have worked out which contributers give me food for thought and those who don’t.

Congratulations IO540 on breaking a significant number of posts! Having only read the more recent ones, was there a thread like this generated for your 10,000th?

PPRUNE is one of my daily stops in the www and often stays in an open browser window far longer than originally planned. This section here has a lot of information on the subject of private flying, friendly folks who help out and who are always willing to listen and discuss.

In today's situation, forums like this and the people who talk to each other and learn from each other are a vital instrument in keeping our dreams and hopes alive. Who else to talk to about the things going on in GA, many of them not encouraging, then the folks here, who share the passion for flying as well as the fear of the loss of the same to the brave new world of regulated Europe.

IO540, you have been and are an inspiration to me personally and without any doubt to many around here. You do what many of us dream of but can't get there for various reasons, but the very fact that you do and talk about it will inspire others. 12'000 posts can be achieved in many different ways, but I would like to say that not one of yours has been in vain. Quantity and quality do not match often, you, sir, are an exception to this rule.

Especcially today, where GA is in severe peril and under attack from many different sides, it is important to talk about it, to share the experiences and to show the odd picture and travel report to remind all of us why we bother.

Keep the good work coming.

Best regards
AN2 Driver

IO540 I feel has taught me alot in a relaitvely short period of time. His website, as mentioned above, makes for excellent reading. However, rather than the post count one may have, what makes me shut up and listen is when I discover that someone has went down the same road I intend on going down and this is the case with IO540. i.e. PPL not for the sake of going for £100 coffee or bacon buttie, but to actually go places (whenever I can, Instructing is where my heart truely lies, for now).

So his stories of gaining his PPL leading on to IMC training, buying a (Dutch I think?) reg aircraft (TB20), placing it on the UK G register, operating it in a non equity group before taking over the aircraft himself, FAA IR and placing the aircraft on the N register and his write-ups of some serious IFR trips over europe. (Though I am disappointed to see by a map on his site he appears to only have been to Ireland once :=) All this is relevant information to my aim and if I get as much out flying in the next few decades as IO540 has then I'm not doing too bad at all!

Also, I would take his posts seriously because I can tell by his writing (which counts for alot in enviroments such as these) that he is quite the perfectionist and believes, quite strongly I would say, that there is little point in only putting in half the effort required to try and do something properly.

To answer Pace's question, why do I post on here? Short answer is I don't. Well not anything of much use anyway! If there was a way to display how many topics or posts I have read well thats another story....

Ryan

AN2

I echo your sentiments! I have dealt with 10540 a lot over the N reg controversy and am always amazed by his detailed knowledge (and research)

As for myself I dont carry the detail that People Like 10540, Guppy, Bose just to name a few do.
But I suppose we all bring different things to the table.

Mine with all my twin prop and jet flying as well as jet ferry work?

How not to do it!!! :E How to attempt to kill yourself and not succeed. (yet :{

The main thing is we all learn maybe change inground views and see other peoples point of view!AND CHALLENGE!! (So important) But PPRUNE would not exist without the contributors and there are very many excellent ones.

Pace

Well I log in here as a 15-hour-and-one-solo wannabe PPL, and learn a heck of a lot. In answer to the original question I post only when I think it's helpful - generally to fellow newbees (well ok, to my eternal shame for my first post I piled into the BA038 thread as well and got immediately and correctly dumped to JetBlast! :hmm:).

I admire IO540's knowledge and am very envious of his TB20 adventures, but they always reinvigorate my enthusiasm even for my spamcan flying. Thanks IO540, long may you continue :ok:

Pace, I gain a lot from your posts too, but I've wondered this for ages and now have a reasonable excuse for asking - why on earth do you consistently post 10540 rather than IO540? :confused:

Kolossi

IO540 takes 5 minutes for each post I take 30 seconds;) That is why no one ever understands a thing I am talking about :ugh:

Hence its shorthand! ie if I have to get a capital I, I have to put the caps lock on,take it off after hitting the O and then go to the number keys for the 540.
Looks almost the same to do it 10540 and a lot quicker so put it down as an energy and efficiency process (Lazy) :cool:

Pace

Well done IO540!

We have flown together a few times in his beautiful aircraft and he in some of the aircraft I fly. Good company and ever interesting posts!

As to why we do it well I am afraid I have been posting here as long as many - although I think a few have been around for even more years.

It is a great way of keeping up with developments, sharing a little gossip and banter and, hopefully, passing on a few experiences.

Hi Pace,

In answer to your initial post, my own motivation for posting on PPRuNe is driven almost entirely from a desire to gain a greater knowledge and understanding from those who are far more advanced than I am

As a relatively new PPL, I find the site a great asset to tap into. As flying is a hobby of mine, I enjoy opening the site on my I phone to just browse through as and when I am free

As I intend to use my PPL to travel for pleasure, be it trips to Italy or the South of France for long weekends, I am drawn most to threads that are based around trips or people asking for advice on such trips

The natural thing that follows from this is how to get there and I find myself drawn to the GPS and software systems threads (especially as these are not taught at all during the PPL and are all new to me)

Equally as I am 2/3rds of the way through my IMC training and I am drawn to threads that relate to this

The thing that stands out most to me from 10540 (over my very brief PPRuNe experience) is his willingness to help out. Perhaps not always seen on the thread, but the off thread comments of advice and the offer to come and sit down to help

For someone like myself, this offer is fantastic and much appreciated, as indeed is all the advice and experience that other PPRuNer’s give through their posts

So thank you

Nick

Congrats and thanks to IO540, and thanks also to the others named above, to whom I would surely add bookworm, Fuji Abound, Shy Torque and Whopity.

I mostly lurk and search pprune, and learn enormous amounts from it, that's why I keep coming back. If I don't know the answer to something that is bugging me, I may post a question. If somebody else asks something and I think I know the answer I will post it, though I am frequently corrected, and that's OK too!

Another reason for posting is an inability to contain my puerile humour!:ooh:

Since we are all being unusually polite about one another, I would just nominate Pace himself, both for instigating this thread, and also (especially for someone who is not strictly a private flyer) making such useful and readable contributions to this particular forum. ;)

PS I have no idea where IO gets his energy from. He has done far more than his fair share for me on a personal, "off forum" level also.

Porridge, almonds, raisins and soya milk for breakfast :)

10540 with the 10 not the IO ;) Energy and efficiency saving !!You will be getting a head as big as your posting numbers with all these adoring posts!

Maybe you should take me on as your PR Manager I am cheap.

Pace

Could one of the mods please remove 20 or so postings of IO for reasons only known to them (as per usual) so we can have another celebration in a few weeks please?

12,010 eh? Who'a thunkit? ...and at 93 years young too! :p

Yes, I've been trying to think of something really witty to say about this accomplishment, but all I can come up with is well done IO. I wonder how you find the time, as I'll see a new post or two pop in inbetween a couple of email he has sent me!

He did comment that longitude 079 west was too far for a fly in, but I know we'll get together sometime in the future for some flying!

Keep 'em coming IO.....

Well done, IO :ok: A milestone achieved through a willingness to help people.

Well done, mate! Always a pleasure reading - an meeting - you!

Have to say, you don't really look your 93 ;) !

Cheers!