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What about those of us who legitimately thought the question wasn't serious or was a joke?

If I put 20 gallons of flammable fluid in my car's fuel tank, will it catch on fire?
 
dmspilot said:
What about those of us who legitimately thought the question wasn't serious or was a joke?

If I put 20 gallons of flammable fluid in my car's fuel tank, will it catch on fire?
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Driving a Pinto? :fingerwag:
 
dp342b said:
I posted this thread looking for different answers for different airplanes. Thinking pilots are supposed to be professional, i expected professional answers.

If you respond to me with a professional answer, I'll respond with a professional reply. If it's a smart a** answer, expect a smart a** reply from me.

Now I'm wondering if I should even be a member of this platform with all the responses I get. Some of the members actually answered the question. Some wanted me to clarify the question to the level of an MIT professor in aeronautical physics.

So to answer your question, I haven't been on in awhile due to scheduling my checkride and studying and working and flying maneuvers and perfecting landings.

So if I don't post ever again, you'll know why.
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Again DP, most of the pilots here are helpful and respectful AND genuinely interested in learning from constructive discussions.... but some members not-so-much and are annoying, as most such forums. I'd give the site another chance. If you have another question drop me a PM... I'm a CFI with all the ratings and happy to help.
 
Bob Noel said:
Do network people have the equivalent of a CFI to ask network questions of?
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If their peers don't know, then I certainly wouldn't know, so we point them at the vendor. For whatever reason tech people are often reluctant to make that call. Maybe that's the same here with some and CFI's. Anyway, a good percentage of the time when our guys call and get a tech or even developer from some network vendor that starts with C or P or F even, they'll say "we're not sure, it might be a problem with the code release, we're working on it." The rest of the time it's usually because the documentation is wrong, missing, or ambiguous.

But if the question is architectural or our network specific, then it becomes one of those sort of religious things, like high wing/low wing, and someone eventually makes a call that leaves some percentage of them sad. Probably the same thing happens in every tech field in the world, I'd guess.

And if your question was rhetorical/humor I apologize...I clearly usually can't tell. These days, kids take network classes in high school, which I can't wrap my head around. Maybe that's because when I was in HS there was no real Internet, and DNS was only theoretical, at best.
 
Lindberg said:
No one told him to go figure out out himself.

Like his CFI?
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How do we know he even has a CFI?

Maybe he's a high school kid interested in aviation and had a question he wanted the answer to.

The only answer he got here was to the question "are pilots dicks?" And the answer was "yes, a whole lot of them."
 
some pilots are "dicks". Just like you can find in any grouping of people.
 
Sluggo63 said:
How do we know he even has a CFI?
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Because he's identified himself as a student pilot. And now he says he's prepping for his checkride. He's also previously ranted about not being able to get his CFI immediately after his private and asked about flying over max gross. One might conclude that he's trolling, but taking his questions at face value, he's at least a student with important knowledge gaps and potentially hazardous attitudes.
 
Lindberg said:
Because he's identified himself as a student pilot. And now he says he's prepping for his checkride. He's also previously ranted about not being able to get his CFI immediately after his private and asked about flying over max gross. One might conclude that he's trolling, but taking his questions at face value, he's at least a student with important knowledge gaps and potentially hazardous attitudes.
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And you did all that research before your first response to them?

“Prepping for checkride” can mean he’s self studying before getting back into it. Maybe he’s between CFIs.
 
Sluggo63 said:
And you did all that research before your first response to them?
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He's dropped other inflammatory posts and left threads. That tends to make an impression. And yes, sometimes a user's history can provide useful context for their posts.
 
As others have said, I suppose it's possible to look up someone's history to try to sort out what their angle is for asking some particular question, but man, I don't have either the time or the inclination. I'm not going to do a 5 second background check on someone at work that sends me a question directly, unless for some reason it's particularly annoying.
 
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