All of you, knock it off.
Chiroptera, your original response was rude and unnecessary – doubling down on it very much more so.
Everyone else – leave the modding to the mods.
Robert Briggs, thanks for responding to this thread. As you can see, we have all kinds of folks here, but many of them are actually quite friendly and pleasant. I hope you’ll consider sticking around the SDMB.
twickster, for the SDMB
Too late. He’s already thanked me for my support by PM but said he won’t bother posting here any more.
That’s too bad. New, interesting posters are worth having.
He bailed just because someone nitpicked his grammar? Heaven help him if he ever visits 4chan.
Sucks even more if you live near the airport, and have to try to sleep thru the damn noise you people make!
The airport was built after you moved there of course?
No, the FAA changed the flight path to go over my house, due to near-misses by airline pilots. (And because this new pattern allows airlines to have lanes land & take off closer together, making their hub operations more profitable.)
On the bright side, somebody else’s house just got a bit quieter :).
You set acceptable standards for treatment of others by reference to how they would be treated on 4chan? Outstanding.
“SDMB- slightly less annoying than 4chan!”
I wish this thread wasn’t so old, I wanted ask pilot141 if his cargo ever talked.
Princhester, please message Robert Briggs and see if you can persuade him to return here. It’s unfortunate that a few inconsiderate remarks have dissuaded him from posting again. Please assure him that some of us do find his comments interesting and that contributions from new members are welcome by those of us who don’t try to make ourselves feel superior to others.
yah, that’s what the tower thinks when they let passenger planes in ahead of heavy lift. Believe me when I tell you there are many more customers involved in one airplane’s worth of freight then the equivalent passenger plane.
Pilot141, what the hell is FedEx still doing with 727’s? It has the same fuel burn as a 767. It’s like driving a tank in place of a taxi.
Well F!@#^%. Why can’t the dope visually identify these threads so we know they’re old.
I agree with cochrane. I would be interested in hearing from someone with Robert’s experience–I’m not a pilot, and will never be one (learned that when a pilot friend handed me the controls of his Cessna once), but I would be interested in his contributions to the aviation threads that occasionally come up. The SDMB is, after all, fighting ignorance, and Robert sounds like he could help with that.
Princhester, please let Robert know that a few of us would like him to return.
I’ll add my voice to the chorus hoping Robert Briggs can be persuaded that the initial reply to his post was atypical of the SDMB as a whole.
ETA: would also be cool to hear back from pilot141 to see how the rest of his career panned out, but I guess he no longer posts here.
Last activity 01-25-2014, and he’s still a charter member, so still here but not particularly active.
Good to see you pilots, er, look out for each other :). Thanks.
Yeah, no worries. Unlike Pilot141 I have the pleasure of alternating between flying passengers and cargo. Much prefer the cargo in general.