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I apologize, Paul, but I am going to take your post yet on another tangent.

Professionalism? I need to be professional all day where I am employed. Flying our 150 is my hobby. Not my profession. I fly to get away from the rest of "that" world. As with coming here. I come here to be among others who also like to fly as a hobby. This is like an extended family for me. Yes, this is a Forum of great knowledge and experience. Is there really any reason we need to regiment it? Is keeping it some what loose and care free really all that bad?

If my hobby ever becomes like my profession, then I am afraid it is time to stop flying. Please do not make this place too professional?

IMHO , it's the "WELL OF WISDOM" in most clubs that feel , and enjoy the atmosphere enough that they do weave in and out of the subject matter . Me personaly , "I LIKE IT"!

The 15 or 20 that you speak of are probably the same ones that always respond to the tech ouestions with very valuable advice .

My observation is that the subject matter is usually answered in the 1rst few posts and then nobody gets any smarter !

This is my 1rst time on an on line forum (resisted the climb) But I have been in many other "clubs" , And remember thats what this is , a club! In the "Internationl Aerobatic CLub" your more experenced people are the heart & soul of the active membership that keeps it alive .
The reason that they continue to compete and share knowlege is because they enjoy it , take the fun out of it and the "well of wisdom" will find somewhere else to "Be a Blessing" !!
Besides as I recall , ain't nobady gettin payed to do this !!

Frankly, I enjoy the social interaction in all the threads... It's part of what separates us from the stuffed-shirt affair over at CPA.

Also, I've learned a heck of a lot from these guys, about things that never would have come up if everyone had kept strictly "on topic."

This isn't a professional club, it's an owner/pilot club, and I wouldn't expect the conversation to be any different than if we were sitting around a picnic table at the airport.

Regarding the Subaru engine... yeah, I'd like to see more pictures of it too.

Can someone please tell me where the carburator belt is, I didn't see it last time I opened the cowl? How do I adjust the tension on it? Oh this very bad. . . very bad.

Hmmm, yep, you'd better get right on that... it's important to have adequate tension on your carburator belt, so as to properly preload your muffler bearings....

I don?t have a dog in this fight and so I can see both sides pretty well.

I don?t think that anyone would ever argue that we have good thread discipline. In many cases, this one for example, would have a subject flow chart that looks like a red oak tree in winter. Someone starts off on a subject, a few folks comment on it then someone takes off on a little tangent and before you know it the subject has been changed a couple or three more times. A thread is just the wrong term. Rug maybe? It makes following and keeping up on a subject a real chore.

On the other hand I participate in the CPA 182 forum. Man do those guys have great thread discipline. They start on a subject and stick with it. If another subject comes up they start a new thread. The people on the forum are cordial, knowledgeable, helpful and nice as can be. However, that forum is very formal and cold. Not the people but the forum!

There is something to be said for both conducts. Learn a lot on both forums but I have a lot more fun here. What we are doing seems to work.


In most cases I find the folks on this forum to be caring, polite and courteous so perhaps out of courteously when we feel the need to veer off into a new subject we could start a new thread; or we can just keep doing what we are doing. For the folks that are bugged by the poor discipline just think of the offenders as an unruly sibling. We are after all brothers and sisters in aviation.

Either way lest not let this forum to loose its? feel of family.

BTW I am going to post this on ?Everything Else?, where I should have posted it in the first place <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Well...Interesting discussion....

This place is unique in that it is mostly ungoverned, and purely democratic, without any formal authorities, elected or otherwise.

It's an interesting social experiment, that seems to work better than most forums because there is a common bond that holds things together.

Some here are freeform thinkers, others more regimented and organized, but no one has any official ability or authority to control the direction the conversation takes, which seems to drive the organized folks a little nuts.

I'm normally one of those control freaks myself, and am probably the only person who could actually have some level of control here, but I decline to exert it. I'm sometimes annoyed or frustrated by the chaos, and other times wildly amused and entertained by it.

Carry On!