"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:sDsqb.128529$Fm2.107284@attbi_s04...


I swear, pilots have become so worried about stepping on anyone's toes
that
we have become tongue-tied --

...as well as the rest of society.

Being polite (the basis, IIRC, of the word POLITICS) goes BOTH ways and
inferes dealing with reasonable people, not a bunch of overgrown adolesents.


which is perceived (by the anti-airport crowd)
as acquiescence. In the end, what some of us perceive to be diplomacy is
only fueling the NIMBY fire.

Whenever we hear someone utter an anti-airport opinion, be it in the
newspaper or in person, I believe we (as pilots) should respond calmly,
logically, immediately and forcefully.

....and assume, at least the first time, that the target of that response
has all their oars in the water.