XPost: alt.usenet.kooks, alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk, free.usenet   
   XPost: rec.aviation.military   
   From: a6ahlyv02@sneakemail.com   
      
   On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:59:37 +0000 (UTC), in   
   alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk, Bertie the Bunyip    
   bloviated:   
      
   >Aratzio  wrote in   
   >news:0nfsp3loh7kg4118gs2h0fu2q86b6m5uv4@4ax.com:   
   >   
   >> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:33:04 +0000 (UTC), in   
   >> alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk, Bertie the Bunyip    
   >> bloviated:   
   >>   
   >>>"Clive"  wrote in news:2yqnj.2464   
   >$801.1877   
   >>>@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk:   
   >>>   
   >>>> "Tex Houston"  wrote in message   
   >>>> news:cN2dnSMB_a4gtwPanZ2dnUVZ_uCinZ2d@pcisys.net...   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> "Clive"  wrote in message   
   >>>>> news:479dd35f$0$18483$9a6e19ea@unlimited.newshosting.com...   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> I lurk here...I can't fly, wish I could, know a couple   
   >>>>>> of pilots and have a keen interest in aviation, particularly   
   >>>>>> piston-engined fighters of any vintage, got the books, visit   
   >>>>>> the airshows, static museum displays etc.   
   >>>>>> I enjoy the posts by Rob and others, find the reminisces   
   >>>>>> by others highly interesting etc.   
   >>>>>> Then this bullshit with some idiot calling himself 'Bertie   
   >>>>>> the Bunyip' fouls up the NG...silly little boys name calling.   
   >>>>>> (Rob...just bloody ignore him)   
   >>>>>> What really concerns me is that apparently this 'B-the-B'   
   >>>>>> twat is a commercial pilot? Can this be true?   
   >>>>>> Is this loony really flying over our heads in charge of an   
   >>>>>> aircraft...possibly with passengers on board?   
   >>>>>> Do his employers know he's nuts?   
   >>>>>> I won't see any reply he might make to this post but   
   >>>>>> would be interested in knowing the truth...so might they.   
   >>>>>> -C-   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> --   
   >>>>>> Clive P Norris   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> The bad part is that he has done this before.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Tex   
   >>>>   
   >>>> So I see from various sources.   
   >>>> He has got a history has he not?   
   >>>> That's not normal behaviour despite what his little   
   >>>> bum-buddy Arzholio thinks.   
   >>>> I want the man driving my plane to be a pro   
   >>>> through and through.   
   >>>> This obsessive posting is not the sort of behaviour   
   >>>> I would expect from any professional whether a pilot/doctor   
   >>>> etc. (Politicians excepted)   
   >>>> Kindly advise airline and routes flown so I can avoid.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>Well, could be a lot of places.   
   >>>   
   >>>Maybe even BA...   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>Bertie   
   >>   
   >> I kinda find it interesting that he lacks all qualification to   
   >> determine fitness for flight.   
   >   
   >Yeah. Well people have strange ideas about what pilots are. Or people in   
   >any occupation, I suppose. Some sort of fit the "right stuff" image, but   
   >they aren't necessarily the best guys around. Basically anyone who makes   
   >it past all the checks we have to do, and then does it time and time   
   >again for year after year 9 we do two sim check, two medicals and one   
   >line ride a year) is competent at least, and usually more than that.   
   >As far as mental health goes, Pilots have one of the worst track records   
   >going. Divorce, alchoholism ( Britsih pilots suffer from this more than   
   >most BTW, so Clive has a paper asshole in more ways than one) but still   
   >, this almost never affects the way we do our jobs. It's understood that   
   >fucking around in an airplane in motion is a bad idea and personal   
   >problems, quirks, and miscellaneous idiocies are all left outside the   
   >cockpit door.   
      
   Same as working on medical equipment. Don't fuck around, people can   
   die. Police, fire etc etc. The list is long of occupations where   
   peoples lives depend upon your actions.   
      
      
   >Me, I don't see a hobby of loonwhacking to be a big deal, m'self.   
   >Asking some guys in the active piot's froups ( where i am relatively   
   >well behaved) would give anyone interested a more objective view of my   
   >knowledge and temperment.   
      
   Anyone that can't detect what you are really doing is just plain   
   stupid.   
      
   >   
   >   
   >>   
   >> He should be a member of the Iraq Working Group and advise Shrub.   
   >   
   >Wel, he's British. Maybe he can be invovled in their next big   
   >"compassionate invasion"   
   >   
      
   Maybe Gordon can appoint him chancellor of the loons.   
      
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