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FromTheShadows,

Ok, let's give this a try. For those not following all threads: This is
a try by FromTheShadows (real names have a nice touch of honesty and
responsibility to them, BTW - if you won't stand by your words with your
name, what are they worth?) to get answers to questions he thinks are
valuable for the group despite having been originally posted by
you-know-who. His solution is to repost them under his name. For the
sake of the experiment, I will be very happy to answer any questions and
comments - except those from you-know-who.



So, in addition to Mx, we now have Mx proxys as well!
Soon we'll have Mx's lawyers here, just to argue the fine points.

These questions are fine, except for two things:
1) If you're going to fly IFR, you have to study the rules a bit. It's not
that hard, but it is indispensible. You will quickly learn, in this case,
that a clearance limit and/or EFC, or "what happens next" is always part of
a clearance. If it isn't, you're supposed to ask for it. So, inundating the
discussion group with questions that would have been answered in five
minutes worth of reading is, well, not a very nice thing to do.

2)The one who does try to answer will be led down a garden path (thorny
garden) of follow-up questions and challenges to his answers, which in most
cases will end with his failure to follow some twist in the maniacal path,
which will bring the conclusion, even if he is a commercial pilot, flying
IFR every day, that he is just "blowing smoke". The pilot, who thought he
was helping out by applying his experience to answer a seemingly simple
question, suddenly wakes up and realizes he has spend hours of his time,
only to be accused of knowing nothing, by someone who initially introduced
himself as knowing nothing.


If this pattern had not been established and repeated countless times, then
no one would get cross about answering these seemingly simple questions.

GF