On Apr 26, 1:18*am, gatt wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote:
gatt writes:

Who else here "discusses aviation" with you?

There are several people here who seem level-headed, but I won't name them,
lest the treehouse club add them to the target list.

Surely somebody will step forward and defend you.

Why? *I can defend myself very well indeed.

You completely missed yet another point.


I did in fact defend him for some time, but later felt the need to
apologise to the group, for my behaviour in doing that.
As a relatively inexperienced pilot I guess I didnt fully appreciate
the annoyance that airline pilots and instructors would feel being
told they were wrong (without substantiating evidence) by someone who
had never flown in his life. As a PhD in physical chemisty ,my
attitude changed somewhat when he tried to tell me how the Universal
Gas Law didnt apply in the atmophere, despite several polite attempts
on my part to explain otherwise. There is nothing wrong with being
wrong, as long as you learn from the experience. It is the complete
and utter inability to accept and acknowledge when he is wrong that is
so irritating. If he wasnt such an obnoxious character and wasnt
16000 km away I would otherwise have loved to take him up ( gratis),
although I suspect there is something else lacking that would have
prevented him from accepting.

I have a suggestion, why dont we have a collection and send Anthony
off on a trial instructional flight on the proviso that the instructor
publishes an account of his peformance on this group? I'll contribute
$20
What about it Anthony , are you up for it?