On Aug 14, 9:46*pm, "Jay Honeck" wrote:

Whatever you blame its demise on, you're right on regarding Pilots of
America. *It's like a breath of fresh air over there, full of helpful,
knowledgeable, friendly and respectful pilots and learned conversation about
piloting. *

Jay, be careful with the "knowlegible, helpful" stuff. I would say
that from a pure aviation knowlege standpoint that list is no better
and certainly worse in many ways than what you get over here. I am not
to good at pinning down human nature but as I see it, many pilots come
to these groups to discuss thier hobby of flying. Unfortunatly for
some, these forums sorta become the hobby. POA , seems to be full of
these types. Look at the guys with thousands of posts and you will see
what I mean. There is some good aviation content over there to be
sure, but I dont see the signal to noise ratio any better than this
place and (If you exclude all the MX stuff) probably much worse.
There is alot of good people here, and a few attention starved "flying
squirells"(My own term). The big difference on POA is that no one
Is gonna tell the squirells to **** off ,as Dudley would say. Both
good and bad I guess )))))