On Jun 20, 8:31 am, "
wrote:
My idea of professionalism, Hugh, is protecting juniors from someone
who, IMHO, does not have their best interests in mind. My experience
with as a junior, and the experience of others, with this individual,
has been extremely negative.

2c


Kevin,
If you truly do view yourself as a professional I would advise to
carefully consider the statements that you are making in a public
forum. As had been said before in this thread, Mitch (which he stated
himself) was trying to start some intelligent conversation regarding
the preparedness of our pilots to compete at the WGC level.

"Having flown all six of the contest days here, I can personally
assure
you that CD Andy McQuigg has done an outstanding job of calling tasks
that make the best use of the weather. The days have definitely not
been easy, with a number of pilots (including this one) having low
saves on final glides as the lift quit. The first three days we were
unable to start the launch before 1pm. If memory serves, three days
the task was changed in the air. It hasn't been easy. Day five and
six in particular really shook up the score sheet. "

The first paragraph that you wrote did provide some insight to the
conversation regarding an individuals (your's) experience at the
Sports Class Nationals.

"So rather than whining, why don't you go fly your glider... oh wait,
you don't even care about flying it... word is spreading about how
you make "use" of it - and I'm not the only one thats picked up. "

The second paragraph that you wrote is a slanderous remark, boarding
on libel, fueled by your own personal agenda and vendetta. Your
insinuations, which I shall not repeat here, are based on rumour,
hearsay, and have absolutely no solid footing in truth.

As a flight instructor, and as a professional, you need to hold
yourself to a higher standard. You need to change your idea of
professionalism, at the very least, to keeping what poorly founded
opinions you have confined to private conversation (if even that), as
opposed to spreading venomous remark on an internationally read
newsgroup.

Further more, Mitch's second post in this thread tried to direct the
conversation towards the rules and scoring system used here in the
USA. No where in this conversation has he made any comment that the
CD was not running the contest properly (Mitch fulled admitted in his
first post that being a CD is a thankless task, and that he was not
trying to draw a slew of flame for his remarks). He was trying to
start a conversation to field opinions regarding our selection
process, and the impact that our rules have on such.

Regards,
Orion Kingman
DV8