I encourage you to re-examine your decision, David.

I assume that you occasionally have passengers who's lives depend on your
ability to make mature decisions. If a controller made you angry on IFR
final will you refuse to speak to him? If the weather makes you angry in
an emergency situation will you crawl into the back seat and refuse to fly
the plane? If the answer is no, then I recommend you use that same
discipline and professionalism in this news group and concentrate on the
aviation topics while ignoring that which makes you angry. In other words:
Fly the plane. Ignore the distractions.

If you are going to be a pilot then act like a good one.



Maule Driver wrote:
It is a sad day but it will look better tomorrow. And some of us try to
keep to the forum topic most of the time.

Welcome to feeling like a disenfrancised minority. But picking up your
marbles and going home really isn't a viable life strategy - especially
over
politics (or sex or race).

Get a good night's sleep or 5 and hope to see you again.

"David Brooks" wrote...
One thing - one of so very many things - I learned in my five years of
flying is that partisan politics does not fit into the cockpit. Most of
my
flight instructors have, I know, been to the right of me politically. I
had
a most enjoyable flight with CJ - although he has since earned my undying
enmity by unapologetically using the term "Final Solution" in connection
with me and people like me, an astonishing thought coming from an
avowedly
religious man, but telling and apt.

But now it seems the nation has, albeit by a slim margin, re-elected a
weak,
hypocritical, murderous coward. Three years ago, when some writers on the
left started talking about fascism, I thought that an absurd stretch. No
longer. The parallels are not precise - they never are - but the broad
sweep
and many of the components of a new fascist state are in place. The 48%
who
didn't vote for this disaster keep knocking on my consciousness, but they
are now feeble and impotent. The thugs are in charge.

That being so, and despite what should be an apolitical setting, I can no
longer in good faith keep company with a group of which the majority, I
know, has elected to deliver the country I love, and chose as my home
into
the hands of Bush and his repressive, regressive masters.

So long. Thanks for all the conversations. You guys have made me a better
pilot.

-- David Brooks