scottish_ppl

Hi Viz Waistcoats....


They cost pennies, for goodness sake just buy one, chuck it in the plane and stop complaining about it....

LowNSlow

Monocock duly seconded as requested. It was/is a good demonstration of people commenting about a subject that their knowledge of is limited.

I can put up with the new Ppruners who ask the obvious questions cos (sorry BEagle, FNG, lapsed into yoofspeek there) a lot of us have asked them in the past. Asking questions that are already on the Forum is just lazy

Timothy

(1) That is totally unfair. I took the p1ss unremittingly for 92 pages

(2) If someone just wants to rant, and have no fear of anyone giving them serious or considered answers why don't they p1ss off to Jet Blast, where I, for one, can ignore them, and make this forum primarily about, well, Private Aviation, like it says on the can?

Timothy

FNG

Timothy

(1) A fair point, and well made, all credit to you.

(2) Jet Blast sometimes appears to be an even weirder place than Pink Headsets. Safer to stay here trying to fly in descending circles whilst writing ranty comments on my map with both hands.

Evo

The small-print on the can says

which probably rules many of us out. Apart from trying to avoid screwing up and getting a b*llocking for getting in the way of Nigel in his nice jet I've got no interest in how I interact with commercial aviation...

FNG

My idea of interacting with commercial aviation is saying to the stewardess "Yes, I would love another Martini, thanks, and some more of those nice nibbly things would be pleasant", but it is very decent of the airline types to put up with us here, as otherwise we'd have to go and play in the Flyer forum, where we'd learn to regard questions such as "Will I crash if my kneeboard is not the same colour as my instructor's?" as representing the height of sophistication.

Hersham Boy

I don't know about annoying... but this is certainly amusing.

I imagine I'll be shouted down if I mention that my blood now boils at the sight of that 'Pink Headsets' thread. No offence to the authors, but it just won't die!

The obligatory 'How many hours before you went solo?' title is a good mainstay - don't really mind re-reading this one as it always brings back those feelings of initial super-enthusiam...

And the 'What motorbike do you ride?' thread that frequently rears it's head in JB... guaranteed to end in a Harleys vs. Jap Plastic debate (sorry, chaps - it's got to be Jap Plastic).

Hersh

High Wing Drifter

At least nobody says "at this time" repeatedly in their posts

Genghis the Engineer

Arguably a poor bit of labelling for this forum.

Speaking for myself, I earn my living designing, analysing, certifying and testing the sort of aeroplanes flown by PPLs - so I'm an aerospace professional with a strong interest PPLs and what they get up to. Many others in here are instructors - so professional pilots who also have a deep interest in PPLs and what they do with their aeroplanes.

Pprune is essentially an aviation professionals forum, mostly (but not exclusively) pilots. That covers a great many things - of which the biggest is undoubtedly commercial aviation, but far from the whole.

Arguably this shouldn't really be regarded as a "private flying" forum, it's a "light aviation" forum, since that's how we mostly treat it - and to good effect.

G

gingernut

Sorry, couldn't resist !!

Does it matter ? Try sitting in my office hearing about people's sore throat's 40 times a day !!

gingernut

Always worked for me. I'd hate to think that I, or anyone else, would be reluctant to post a question for fear of sounding stupid or repetative.

mad_jock

Hersham Boy your not fecking joking with that one.

The number of times its nearly been deleted after a night out on the pop has reach fingers and toes.

But unfortunatly the thought of hit squads and the fact BRL has backed the fecker up has put payed to that idea.

It seems to be filling a niche with the student pilots apart from being a substitute husband for getting advice for her.

Must admit I don't look at it myself unless I get a moan from one of posters that I need to reply to something.

MJ

Actually BRL I would be more than happy if you locked the bugga after she passes her GFT. I don't think I could stand the follow on opera of IMC and night rating.

witchdoctor

"Dr. Frankenstein I presume?"

Good one MJ! Better hope she doesn't find out.

FNG

The thread was not split into two. Gingernut, who is apparently a medic, and therefore vocationally devoted to increasing the sum of human happiness, jestingly started a second thread with the same title. The joke worked best when the two threads were parked next to one another on the page, but there has now been a merger (moderator intervention, gingernut, not hostile takeover), presumably in order to preserve precious space for Pink Headsets.

Pink_aviator

MAD JOCK ,

Looks like I will have to put my own name to the

"PINKSTER STUDYING HER ATPL " thread ,
(then the lack of hits will finish it off )

Then your fingers will not be able to hover constantly over the DELETE key .

With any luck you will not have to see "pink headsets " after 19 days ,

ummmmmmmmp

THE PINK-AVIATOR
THE PINKSTER


Sorry to gate crash this thread , but it had to be said

Timothy

Are you sure about that?

Timothy

Pink_aviator

Sorry I spoke univited ,
but I didn't realise my thread was tired and old and people hated me ,

but yes IT HAD TO BE SAID .

PINKSTER .

ERRRR SORRY AGAIN (FNG)

I will have it out with him on my thread .

PINKSTER

mad_jock

its ok peeps i am discussing her trantrum on the other thread.

BTW its dead confusing the 2 threads merging like that.

Shall the second thread posters delete the posts. To be honest my next post on shagging grannies was going to get us sent to jet blast anyway.

MJ

Whirlybird

Well, the how many hours to first solo thread is boring me silly, but at least it means the first solo stories are confined to one thread.

And sometimes I look at this forum and yawn, because just about everything seems to have been done to death before.

But probably all that proves is that in a few short years of flying I've become old and jaded...or that I spend too long on PPRuNe!

Seriously, folks, people have got a right to post anything they like. If I don't like it I won't read it. The only thing that really makes me mad is the threads with vague titles like "a question" because then I have to read it to find out what it's about.

Timothy

I made this point ^up^there^somewhere^, but added that I didn't read it and didn't feel any sense of loss.

I don't think that PA should be made to feel bad about her thread. I haven't read it for a long time, but that doesn't mean that I think that it has no value for other people. It must be one of the longest and most read threads on PPRuNe, so there is clearly a demand.OK, I've done mine!

Timothy