On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 18:29:50 +0000, Richard Herring
wrote:

In article , beaudoin
wrote
"Richard Herring" wrote in message
...
In article , cn8cg wrote
It is used in practice. I have used it in Morocco.

What is?

Americans should
appreciate the freedom we have in flying. Flying outside of the US
is a
chore. In Morocco, I have had to file an international flight plan
for a
9
nautical mile flight. Utterly stupid. International flight plans are
not
the simple flight plan we use here in the US either.

You may not have noticed, but Morocco isn't the whole of the
non-American world.

The link, obviously, was disconnected.

"The link"?

The "Link" was to what you asked "What is?" too, in other words, QFE/QHN.


You are commenting on something you
may not have complete knowledge of.

Yes. That's why normal newsgroup practice is to quote enough of the
message to which you're replying to establish a context, and to put your
replies after what you quote. Otherwise people don't know what you're
talking about.

QFE is what was being discussed.

Glad to hear it.

In my
comment, Morocco was noted as the most stupid of the flight plan
requirement
made by many countries. My flight experience is not limited to that
country. I know well that Morocco isn't the whole of the non-American
world.

Glad to hear that too. From here it looked remarkably like hasty
generalisation.

Nor is the UK, asshole.

Who mentioned the UK?


Sorry Richard, but (whilst "asshole" is uncalled for in our newsgroup) you
did deserve a strong response to your rather terse post. I followed what
he was talking about. The thread is crossposted to rec.aviation.misc, so
he was talking about how lucky the yanks are and was giving an example of
how difficult aviation can be in other parts of the world.

For Beaudoin, please don't use bad language to insult people on our (uk)
newsgroup. Whilst we don't mind the odd four-letter word in chit-chat, is
it quite unacceptable to use them to insult people. The reaction can be
worse than the reason you insulted them in the first place.



Ben.

--

....And so as the little andrex puppy of time scampers onto the busy
dual-carriage way of destiny, and the extra-strong meat vindaloo of fate
confronts the toilet Out Of Order sign of eternity... I see it is time to
end this post.