In rec.aviation.student Jay Honeck wrote:
To take one personal example, he called me a bad pilot because I make poor
landings in a simulator.

Tell me that's not an insult. Tell me that's being a gentleman.

No, that's not having experience in both worlds, and being stupid.

It's not stupidity. The guy is obviously pretty smart. He belittles the
experience of others not because he's a moron, but because he thinks that
his large brain makes up for not having any himself. Put simply, he thinks
he's better than the rest of us. The attitude which comes from that is
insulting, and ungentlemanly.

Many real pilots struggle to land our sim, at first. (See it he
http://www.alexisparkinn.com/flight_simulator.htm ) Our 104" screen makes
it much more realistic (and, thus, easier for a real pilot) -- but it's
still not the same. (No peripheral vision in the flare is the primary
problem for most.)

This is my point exactly. Real pilots *do* have trouble with sims, even
good pilots. But this ****** has decided I'm a bad pilot, and called me
such to my face (at least, the Usenet equivalent of it), despite this
fact. That is an insult, plain and simple, even when put in nice words.

Bottom line: If MX drives you that nuts, create a simple kill file that
eliminates his posts from your newsreader. It literally takes three key
strokes.

I know how to create a kill file, although it takes a few more than three
keystrokes in my newsreader. Rest assured that I will killfile him if he
does start driving me nuts. As it is he's more amusing than annoying. He's
so crazy that it's hard to take it seriously, which is as it should be.

Don't take what I've said above and think that I'm actually *offended* or
anything. It takes a lot more than some ass-clown calling me a bad pilot
to do that. But I object to anyone claiming that he doesn't insult people
and conducts himself as a gentleman just because he uses polite wording.

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Michael Ash
Rogue Amoeba Software