Oooooorrrrr, we could pretend we are grown-ups and say HI, to the new guy, welcome to Sino Defense, and recognise that we can ask those questions and it isn't necessarily trolling, its prolly the only thing that matters to any fighter pilot, is my bird good enough to WIN? Not advocating a revolt here, or any disrespect to our great moderators or other posters, or not following the rules, just behaving like gentlemen.......and then if the new Guy gets cranked up and rude, then we can throw the rule book at him and banish him to the netherworld. Just the cranky old free speech dude here, really guys, rant off and back on topic???? any way gentlemen, any news or preliminary reports on our downed bird, we find out they are very experience pilots, could have been a check-ride gone wrong--------funny, but true brat story here, the only real "brain surgeon" for real dudes, but he will remain nameless to protect his good name, owned a Cessna 310 and a gorgeous Christan Eagle two holer, unlimited aerobatic biplane,,, and it was gorgeous. Anyway shows up at Klem's where I worked with a collapsed main gear and dinged up lower left wing, I was on the night shift and I say to Klem, well what happened to Dr. H----s bird. Turns out he and another hot dog pilot where up doing some aerobatics and shaking off the fuzzballs, one of them turned short final and told the other one to "take it", long story short "nobody" was flying the plane, there is a moral here, the chain of command should be very clear, and when you say, its your airplane, might want to wait for a response.....
Oh yeah, Hi New Guy, welcome to Sino Defense! Brat sorry Kwai, I know you're not gonna take this wrong, thats why I responded to your post. Hang in there guys spring is on the way????