ATC Handling of Low-Fuel American Flight

Sam Spade writes:

Again, a glittering generality unsupported by speficics.

The number of mistakes made here by self-proclaimed "real pilots" has
surprised me somewhat, although I realize that many of them are very low-time
pilots whose experience has been limited to tiny tin cans under VFR. Often
their biggest mistake is in believing that their experience represents all
experience.

It appears to
me you wouldn't know whether any technical assertion made on this forum
is right or wrong.

The fact that I do is one reason why I'm so wary of the answers I receive.
And the more vehemently a poster insists upon the correctness of his answers,
the more likely he is to be wrong.

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Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.

Mxsmanic wrote:

The fact that I do is one reason why I'm so wary of the answers I receive.
And the more vehemently a poster insists upon the correctness of his answers,
the more likely he is to be wrong.


You just described yourself.

I'm going have to go pull mxmaniac out of my kill file - I can only see you
guys arguing with him and the conversation just doesn't keep up.


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Jim Carter
Rogers, Arkansas
"Tim" wrote in message
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Mxsmanic wrote:

The fact that I do is one reason why I'm so wary of the answers I
receive.
And the more vehemently a poster insists upon the correctness of his
answers,
the more likely he is to be wrong.


You just described yourself.

Mxsmanic wrote:


The fact that I do is one reason why I'm so wary of the answers I receive.
And the more vehemently a poster insists upon the correctness of his answers,
the more likely he is to be wrong.


As they say in court, "Objection, your honor! That is an assertion of a
fact not entered into evidence."

Also, you lamented that the FAA doesn't participate here. Well, there
are two ATC controllers who also are pilots that hang out here. But,
they do it primarily because of their advocation.

If you knew anything about the FAA you would know they would not have
any official presence on this, or any other user forum. First, it is
not part of anyone's job decription at the FAA and, second, very few of
those folks would ever do anything more than they have to.