Jim, Sport Pilot discussion is certainly not forbidden here.
But there's a forum called, appropriately, Sport_Pilot. It's dead. There are only a few posts per month. The flame wars there made a lot of permanent enemies who follow each other to other forums and attack each other there as well. What better forum to discuss Sport Pilot issues than a Sport_Pilot forum? Yet the flame wars killed that forum. They start, commonly, with a mild comment misperceived (or even correctly perceived) as an attack which elicits a more strongly worded defense which elicits . . . It gave a great clinic in how such things get started and grow. And, it gave some insight in how to tone it down. The best tactic, it seems, is to ignore the barbs and just reply to the issues. Over a couple of years, I got a fair number of offensive trial-barbs thrown at me. By just ignoring them and addressing the issue under discussion, I came to be seen as a non-participant in the flame-war and was able to have some worthwhile discussions. But it sure was a pain to wade through the hate-mail to find the actual discussions. Ed
