As a member of the Chicagoland MG Club (don't get to too many functions -
work interferes with my free time), I've talked with Barney on a number of
occasions. I agree with many of the comments and figured I'd do a "me
too". Barney does not vent against others, he provides considerable
technical information - a lot from experience - and is a very active
participant in the LBC drama. It's great to have such a resource
available. I can't recall seeing any input from Barney in the endless
drivel regarding 'cats', 'swaps' etc.
We all see a zillion identical replies to the same question. When Barney
responds, it is generally NOT a repeat and is sufficiently complete to
require no further explanation. There's a practice in aviation
communications which ought to be thought about before responding to an
inquiry - when first calling the next Air Traffic Controller - pause and
listen for a few seconds before keying the mike and talking - you may hear
information which you will not have to ask for (and expend precious
"airtime" needlessly) when you do contact ATC. The point?? If there's an
inquiry and a response - there's no need to send an identical response -
i.e. read the mail first then respond if your answer is substantively
different. It's intimidating to see 150 e-mails from the list, 80% of
which are "me toos' (yeah, like mine started off), venemous tirades or just
plain silly. On the tirades, please keep it to yourselves - we all have
induhvidual addresses. If it's silly, one or two may be OK but not a
hundred and two! In my view, the list should be fun but primarily
informative.
One other suggestion (a repeat) please use a brief, descriptive "subject"
header - it's a lot easier to weed out superfluous messages. Most subject
lines I've seen are pretty good.
Any flames, just send to me - not the list (although, it's your option, of
course).
Thanks and regards,
Bob Galli
rcgalli@ix.netcom.com
'78B
'82 F33-A Bonanza (Company owned, rats!!)
'98 Voyager (Plymouth, not Burt Rutan)
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