I also ventured onto the Sport Pilot forum in the beginning but it quickly became obvious that it was a bunch of younger guys that had no interest in old airplanes or older pilots who they considered a bunch of old guys trying to keep flying after their heart attacks.
Kevin --- In [email protected], "Ed Burkhead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 >
