On Sep 8, 4:59 pm, Jay Honeck wrote:
Please consider delivering the same passion for the topic in a more
respectful manner. As you grow older, you may find you were/are not
"right" about everything (yes, even pilots).

Well put.

However, I feel the need to point out a couple of things. Over the
years I have oft-stated my disregard for people who post here under a
pseudonym. It always seems that the most visceral and acidic posts
come from the people who don't have the balls to identify
themselves.

Toecutter, however, is an exception to that rule. He universally
expresses himself in a level-headed, fair and balanced way, and is
incredibly knowledgable and willing to share his wisdom and
experiences. He has helped me countless times with aircraft problems
big and small, and was instrumental in my deciding to buy the
Pathfinder.

Further, he is also the kind of "anonymous" poster who will email you
off-group, and properly identify himself, IF you show respect and
manners. Once you are in his "circle of respect", you soon know his
entire family.

In short, Toecutter is good people -- and I'll defend to the death his
right to call me an arrogant and belligerant aircraft owner!

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

There is another side to not using your name on usenet, although I
agree that using a "handle" allows people to be asses many times. On
this group, all I think you have to worry about is maybe some nasty
jawboning back and forth. On some others, there are definately people
that you don't want knowing your name and location; could be bad for
your health. On one group, some guy bragged about traveling to
someone's hometown and leaving some bullet holes in an adversary's
place of business. Need I say more. There are some real nut cases out
there. Come to think of it, this occurred on one of the aviation
groups.
As for belligerent owners, well we all know a few. However, I have
met too many A&Ps that I don't want anywhere near my airplane. How
about you? And some arrogant ones too. Just because they they know how
to work on them, they think they are engineers. Never opened a genuine
engineering textbook in their lives, but they'll make big fun of you
for stating even the most basic of facts that any undergraduate
enginneering student would easily know. And you can't even give them
references where they can check it out for themselves. They just
ignore you and go on arguing. They have their intuitions and don't
need you telling them anything. Not to mention having others see that
they were wrong about something. They'll never admit that, that's why
they won't bother finding out the facts, even when it would be so easy
to do. Hell, I'm wrong about things all the time. I just don't like to
stay that way. I try to find out and accept what I find.

Regards,
Bud