"Everytime I ask a question on this group I get an amazingly nasty
response..."


It's been the opposite for me. Maybe I've just been lucky, but I've asked a
couple of technical questions about IFR procedures and received correct
answers within minutes! And no nasty responses, either. The traffic on
this group is low, but the signal to noise ratio is much higher than on the
other rec.aviation.xxxxxxx groups I read.

Dennis