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Old June 30th 08, 04:12 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Tony Clark
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Default UK Pilots and OLC


RE : Does anyone know the reason why almost no postings are made on the
OLC by British pilots ? I was watching Wimbledon on TV yesterday and
noticed the great looking skies over England . . . .


I wonder if some of the tratitional British reserve (of say the 1930's)
is still embedded in the British psychology today and has a small
contributary effect to some degree? When I was a teenager in the 1950's
it was still considered "very bad form" for a chap to talk openly in
public about his achievments! It was quite ok for someone else to publish
a description of your achievements, but not you personally. That would be
looked on as 'boasting', which of course was unnaceptable among
gentlemen and considered very much "not the done thing"!

Does some of this way of thinkig still unconsciously run through the veins
of British gentlemen (which of course nearly all UK glder pilots are!)

This is of course said very much tongue-in-cheek. However, possibly . . .
 




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