Been in the business flying for 24 years, and have provided the young man info. I guess by your snide remark you aren't really wanting experienced people in the association, don't worry, won't be joining any time soon.
You do your HEPAC association far more service when you keep quiet. Everytime you open your mouth I truly feel you lose the respect of those you so desperately need to make your association work.
Probably aren't many on here who would take anything I say as being acceptable to them Don, but I can understand your comment about the older guys to some degree.
Oh, by the way what is a BJ, is it something like vortex ring state?
Sorry to sound so inexperienced but I do try and learn...................
QUOTE from Blackmac/Don/HEPAC......"You will of course not get any help from the so called "old timers" as they have already feathered there respective nests and or provided the neccessary BJ's."
I don't need to say anything in response.
I just wanted to re-post this to remind people of how much class and respect we can expect from this guy.
Don, I await your usual charming rebuttal.
Maybe you should sign Todd Bertuzzi on as your public relations officer !!!
MagSeal and Cyclic Monster and whoever was offended.
It would seem that I've touched a few so called "Old Timers" nerves, oh my, oh my.
For your added information the idea of HEPAC was to try and better the industry for engineers and pilots, not just for you individuals.
Start by signing your names and you might have a little validity.
The assoc was set up at no cost to either one of you individuals or any other person that wants to bring it down.
If you feel you can do anything to better the industry, just let me know and for the price of incorporation, you can have it.
I will give people a year from incorporation to make up there respective minds.
If we do not have enough members to vote me out by then, I will disolve it and make no further effort to try and get this industry on some kind of a reasonable footing for everybody.
As I stated from the begining this is not my association, but everybodies.
All I am trying to do is give you a wakeup call and have some say in what is going on in the industry.
So far you are making it quite clear that you are looking at the web page, but don't have the guts to join.
For your added info, I have nothing to gain from this assoc. I am only trying to give something back.
After spending two days at meetings with TC on behalf of HEPAC and mainly for the engineers, I posted a comment in the AME's section and nobody even made a comment. Wait till the Safety Management System is tabled and see people scramble.
HAC was present at the meeting along with ATAC and as you are aware they have paying members that are called operators that they represent.
Quite frankly the only thing that they will condon on behalf of the operators, is any rule making that does not cost anything to there members.
The only ones with anything to say re there respective associations were Flight Attendants and ALPA.
Allthough I attended I had NO direction from our membership to make any statements.
I would suggest that if you want to have a say in what is going on, on your behalf, you had better start attending some of these rule making CARAC meetings. They are open to the public.
Bottom line is that I need to pay my money to have you speak for me. There lies the problem.
By the way, I'm not an 'oldtimer'. You should have known that by now.
I've only been to your web page once, had questions that seem to have fallen on deaf ears, which leads me to believe the future wouldn't be much better.
Sorry, call me a pessimist, but my money stays in my pocket for now. Sorry if you wasted yours.
should I ever bump my head and join, there would be no connection to me here and the real me, you'd still be in the dark.
One reason that people may be concerned about their identity revolves directly around you. Did you not make threats before? I sure don't want you phoning, knocking on my door, e-mailing threatening messages. I can barely tolerate you in here.
good for you! anyone can figure out who i am through my posts. i've never made a big secret of it. heck, i even posted a picture of myself a while back
personally, i could care less how long you have been in this industry. (for the record i'm in it for 16yrs)
i just find it amazing that you can post as you do, say the things you do, and threaten people the way you do and still expect people to trust you with their money and to talk for them..........
no, you will never get my "membership fees"............ :down:
ON THE OTHER HAND, should a well respected member of the industry start an association i may change my mind. DOWNWASH, where are you???????????