Pre adolescent forum.

[Cat Driver]

Avcanada needs a pre adolescent forum so we don't have to wade through all their mindless posts day after day.

I can think of a few here who might have difficulty carrying on a useful conversation even in such a forum.

[SkySailor]

Bang on, Cat!

[I WAS Birddog]

You know Cat....I can read your posts.

I may be r3tard3d...but I'm not stoooopid

Just for that, I'm turning it UP a notch

[beaverbob]

Like Elvis said: Go Cat Go

[Bushav8er]

Old Timers Board.
Admission Requirements:
6000+TT or
CPL before 1990 or
over age 40 or
pass a test using the words: where, were, there, their, they're in a sentence.

[Aviatard]

Good idea. I suggest also adding a flame board so people can demonstrate their giant online manhood without bothering the rest of us, and adding the words "your" and "you're" to the test.

[Phlyer]

Old Timers Board.
Admission Requirements:
6000+TT or
CPL before 1990 or
over age 40 or
pass a test using the words: where, were, there, their, they're in a sentence.

So Yes. I'll add we have to know the use of 'to' and 'too' (although that might take out a couple of posters).

[aviator2010]

wear wood u put this broad, i two wood like two post their.

[Dash-Ate]

What happend to the Known Users fourm it's gone.

[Cat Driver]

wear wood u put this broad, i two wood like two post their.

Need I say more, reading the drivel from the above poster he/she is lucky I don't own this forum because her/his posts would be would be vaporized immediately.

The bottom line is this is supposed to be a forum where aviation minded people can communicate in a manner that is useful.

Or maybe I am just getting to old for this crowd?

[I WAS Birddog]

Cat...check your PM

[Lost Lake]

Can't agree more Cat. I was interested in posting a survey on hear (just kidding) about age and hours, but I think I could guess the outcome.

[Cat Driver]

I probably should not have started this thread, but it becomes very tiring trying to keep a serious discussion going here sometimes having to read all the childish responses to issues that are aviation related.

Here...... I'll be the first to respond to this.

I was interested in posting a survey on hear (just kidding) about age and hours,

Turned 75 in October.

30,000 + hours all accident free.

[altiplano]

Time in log book has little to do with maturity level. Age is often not a very good indicator either.

[Cat Driver]

Time in log book has little to do with maturity level.

Therefore regardless of how much flying time you have it means very little?

Age is often not a very good indicator either.

That is true.

So how do you quantify maturity?

[bandaid]

Hey cat. Some stupid responses deserve a rebuttal others should be ignored. We have all seen those children laying on the floor and banging thier fists and screaming because they want attention. The trouble here is that a virtual spanking makes them think that they have been clever enough to get everyone riled (Attention they seek). Best to ignore the annoying little brats and they soon loose interest.
One of the other forums that I belong to you have to be a paramedic to post. Approval is done only after you have requested it with you employee number that can be verified. That doesn't happen here nor could it. The majority of the people posting here are in it for the right reasons. The others are probably annoying a multitude of forums that allow anyone to register.
Enough strikes and we can give them a rest or ban them from this forum permanently. Over the 7 years I have been here I have seen many come and go some because they wanted to others were "asked".

[Cat Driver]

Yeh, Bandaid I realize that and as I said I probably should not have started this thread....then again it does reinforce the value of valid discussions.

I still often think of your kindness toward me when Pene passed away and want you to know that even though I am barely able to face the next hour especially at this time of year I have programmed my mind to think it will get better in the coming year.

At least I am eating enough to stabilize my loss of weight and slowly hope to recover physically and hopefully in time mentally as well.

[beaverbob]

I'll bite Lost Lake, 61 years young and 28,000 hours. All BC and 15000 of that coastal seaplanes.
BB

[Nark]

I'll bite as well.

28
2300 hours.

[Cat Driver]

I'll bite Lost Lake, 61 years young and 28,000 hours. All BC and 15000 of that coastal seaplanes.
BB

Awesome.

You ever get to Nanaimo?

[Big Pistons Forever]

Old Timers Board.
Admission Requirements:
6000+TT or Yes
CPL before 1990 Yes
over age 40 Yes
pass a test using the words: where, were, there, their, they're in a sentence.

Where were all the good pilots when their knowlege was needed on the boards ?
I know; they're busy studying CARs !

[bandaid]

LIke I said Cat, I will look you up next time I'm down. I'll add a muffin or lunch to that coffee to make sure we put some meat back on your bones.
Beaver Bob. Did you by any chance fly around the Prince Rupert area in the early 80s?

[altiplano]

Quantify maturity related to internet message board posting?

- a positive attitude and intention behind the post.
- meaningful relevant contribution.
- knowing when not to post (ie redundant, irrelevant, argumentative, etc).

Absolutely experience is as important a part when it come to the depth of a contribution, but it is seperate from the maturity level of the poster.

I have seen on more occassions than I can count:
- drivers in established non-entry-level jobs flaming and attacking their competition, always getting the last word.
- people who represent themselves as senior airline captains carrying on and on beating topics to death again and again.
- etc etc...

Obviously, the quality of contribution from the no experience 20something wannabe poster who craps on everything and is incapable of formulating much of a thought beyond the latest I-phone app is evident. But I am sure there are as many low-time guys out there lurking, shaking their heads at the drivel and too smart to bother saying anything...

FWIW... We're there, where their bizatches were, now that they're not there.

[Cat Driver]

There is a limit to how much one need study the CAR's once one expands their horizons beyond Canada.

Knowing where to look or ask for information is the secret to the need to know issue.

If you are ferrying an airplane through many countries on a long delivery flight you sure do not need to " study " their regulations.....

Furthermore most every country has so many rules you would never get airborne if you had to " study " their regulations.

The CAR's are written in such a manner that the regulator can interpret them to suit their agenda at the time anyhow.

As a professional teacher of flying I prefer teaching them how to fly and how to think through the coming flight so as to always leave them self an out when things do not go the way they planned.

That approach to flying and that attitude has worked for me for over fifty years of flying most every device known to man.

[Big Pistons Forever]

From Websters Dictionary

"Study"

1a: Application of the mental faculties to the acquisition of knowledge

1b: such application in a particular field or to a specific subject

Knowing where to look or ask for information is the secret to the need to know issue.

.

Sure sounds like studying to me so I guess that means we agree on one thing