"Dudley Henriques" wrote:
"Mike Marron" wrote:

Another classic contradiction that smacks of hypocricy is the guy
who trots out his qualifications in his .sig in each one of his posts
then turns around in the same breath and writes, "I don't know what
the hell your pilot quals are and I frankly don't give a flying f**k."
That, after he just told me to "grow up!" Mind boggling stuff.

Please allow me to educate you on something if I may. The signature file I
use
"Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
Commercial Pilot/CFI Retired
For personal e-mail, use
dhenriquesATzarthlinkDOTnzt
(replacezwithe)"
is in no way even beginning to touch on my "qualifications". It's used for a
specific reason and in no way is meant to "impress". The IFPF tag is simply
there for those who happen on the group and might remember our association
and wish to write to me for updates and/or current information on something
I can provide. The "pilot" tags are a simple expression of general
background only.
I seldom engage in "can you top this" dialog with posters on Usenet, as you
can see from this post, where I'm not even close to stating for you a resume
of my "accomplishments" :-))

OK. Thanks for the clarification.

As I said to you before, no one really cares about these things. Your
experience will show to one and all in the quality and accuracy of your
information.

Agreed. Hence the reason I rarely mention my credentials.

Although being normal, I have succumbed on occasion to taking
on people like yourself, in this case I don't care to do that. It just isn't
that important to me that you be "impressed" :-))

Nor is it important to me if it's not's important to you!

I answered your post to Stephen because you were out of line on several
counts. You're out of line with me as well, but that's your choice. I'm a
big boy and will survive the encounter I'm sure. :-)

I'll concede to being out of line with you but with all due respect,
ya' gotta admit that you did throw the first punch and it was kinda'
of a sucker punch at that. I'll also concede to being out of line
with Stephen with regards to the "attitude" thing (I thought he
misspelled altitude). Having said that, I remain convinced that he's
the one whose totally out of line with regards to some other stuff
that he's posted but I'd rather not waste your time or mine by
rehashing it at this time.

If I might make a respectful suggestion to you Mike; there's no need for you
to take the attitude you have with some of us on this forum. In the end you
will gain little if nothing from taking us on. We've all seen it many times
before. Most of us know each other, and have known each other for years.
Many of us have thousands of hours flying all sorts of airplanes. Some are
historians; some are just people interested in military aviation. From time
to time we'll get into our "qualifications" but for the majority of us it's
just friendly competition. We all know from years of reading what each of us
has written who is "qualified" at what. Believe me it's no secret out here
who the people are who are "qualified" and who are not.
You seem to like the Ultralights. That's fine. They require a great deal of
expertise to handle safely and properly. We all know that. We don't need you
to tell us this, or compare what we do against what you do. Instead of
taking us on, why don't you just join in with us; accept the fact that most
of us here know what the hell we're talking about, and instead of taking us
on with all this vitriolic rhetoric, just engage us in a more friendly
manner.

Nicely said and done deal.

Take Steven for example. He flies a 65 horse Aeronca Champ.

Aeronca Champ huh? One of my fave books was "Flight of Passage" by
Rinker Buck. And one of my fave quotes in that book (no offense to
Stephen or any other Champ owners out there!) is, "The Champ can't
climb fer ****!"

His knowledge however far exceeds the "difficulty" factor for the tiny airplane
he flies. He knows a lot about a lot of things and has been posting here for many
years. He's blunt sometimes, but not in any way worthy of the blistering
crap you were throwing his way.

Again, I'll concede my mistake assuming he meant "altitude" instead
of "attitude," however, like I said I'm still convinced that he was
totally out of line with regards to some other stuff that he's posted
which I won't waste your time or mine by rehashing it at this time.

The bottom line is this. You have on this group a real assorted bunch of extremely
talented and knowledgeable people. If you intend to hang around here for any length
of time, you might want to rethink your approach a bit.

FWIW, I've been around here (mostly lurking) for many years myself but
only recently started actively posting. I'll take your suggestion and
try a different approach (in fact, I went "missed" last night after
being gently ****hammered by CC).

I'll let it go at this and instead of listing for you the four pages of my
"qualifications", I'll hope instead that you reconsider where you want to go
with this group and perhaps give it another try in a different direction.

Speaking of which, I'd be interested in your qualifications. After
reading about Herb Fisher on CC's site (I've also read about other
famed civilian test pilots such as LeVier? and Cochran, Lindbergh,
etc. etc.) I've always wondered how a civilian is fortunate enough to
find him/herself in the cockpit of a powerful fighter aircraft. Pardon
my ignorance, but one would think that the military would mandate
you to get your commission and be an active service member
before allowing you to fly high performance military A/C, no? If
you had your druthers, wouldn't you prefer to be an active
servicemember anyway so as to have the opportunity to actually
USE your skills in combat? Just wondering.

Thanks!