Me too so far as the closed thread was concerned. Seemed a good way to say a permanent goodbye to someone who was just trying to say hello!

I think the moderators could smell the bullies lining up!
DO.

Just a thought
 

I think a lot of interesting posts are/were from students or low hrs pilots either asking for info or just sharing joy,fear,worries,etc
eg Mazzys 0-45 hrs was brilliant.
Maybe in the current financial crisis there are less people learning to fly?
Lister

IMHO it was wrong to lock that thread. I could not see anything wrong with that friendly post.

Facebook is for plonkers :)

Dogtag? What dogtag? :ooh:

I think I'll send a PM to the OP of the closed thread and ask him to start it again.
Then we can all post positive replies before the bullies get in. Power to the people! Vive la Revoltion!!

A case of extreme moderation? :cool:

Lister said,

Also less people able to keep flying too...me one of them...:{

Visiting the forum sometimes makes me feel like a starving kid peering through the chip shop window.
I want it, I need it but I cant have it.

I didn't even realise my thread had been locked, just figured no one was interested! :ouch:

I hope I pay more attention to my flying :O

Hurrah he's back!

Locking that thread does seem a bit odd, can't see the sense in it myself.

Well, I can't comment on why the thread was locked as it wasn't me who locked it and you all know I do welcome newbies to the forum with open arms!

In fairness though the guy did say this; and;

:}

As for the forum being quiet it traditionally goes quiet during the summer flying season, people being away and out flying etc so it was no real surprise to me to see the post counts down although I was surprised at how much they were down.

I can only put this down to the recent unannounced downtime from the servers resulting in many people unable to log-in for long periods of time. Also the dreaded 'Database' error has raised it's head a few times far too much for my liking recently too. People get fed up, myself included and the other mods and admins here too.

I don't like seeing the site down, it drives people away and that has been seriously annoying me as we (all of us) have built this forum up over the years only to see people keeping away because of the unannounced site 'downtime'. I have been assured though that the reasons for the site being down have been dealt with (human error) and things should improve and I can say though they have been improving too over the last couple of weeks. :)

Fly safe guys and have a fantastic flying season wherever you are. :)

I was born in Brighton, just thought you might want to know. :bored:

Oh were you ;)

Cheeky :ooh:

A worrying trend is developing on this thread... so I'll try to liven it up..... :E

This morning my Partner passed his skill test on his weight shift micro-light..... :D:D:D:D:D:D

You just need to read Birds and Aeros to find out why all is quiet. Everyone has run out of anything interesting to say.

Sorry, I was asleep, did someone say something :hmm: