Pilot Chronicles is Looking for Pilots

On 10 Jan 2004 23:05:29 -0800 (pdxflyer) wrote:

Thanks for your response to our post. It is certainly not the intent
of Pilot Chronicles to compete with the message boards. What we


You keep referring to Usenet as a message board. Tells me you don't
really understand what Usenet really is, but that's okay. Because
it really is so amazing and so big that it's often hard to explain
and it can be hard to comprehend for someone that's new to the
internet.

provide is a focused approach to the presentation and cataloging of
pilot experience with functionality quite different from message
boards. The boards are great but the format just didn't fit into what
we were trying to accomplish. That's why we don't (and never will)
offer message boards on our site. We'll leave that to the Googles and
iPilots of the world. In fact, we've even listed the Google Aviation
Groups on our links page.

We're simply a group of dedicated pilots that want to express our
passion for flying and hopefully help other pilots in the process. I
hope you'll click on over for a visit sometime. I think you'll
appreciate what we're trying to do.

Look I have no problem with the fact that you're trying to pursue
something that you're passionate about. But, you don't fully
comprehend some things about Usenet and its denizens. What you're
doing is akin to going into a Starbuck's and saying please come over
to my house and drink your coffee, it's nicer and friendlier there.
Does that put things into perspective for you? I hope you don't
take this wrong but it seems like we're not getting through to you.
At least we're taking the time to try and explain things. There is
that.

Good luck on your site.

R. Hubbell




Ron
Pilot Chronicles
www.pilotchronicles.com


"R.Hubbell" wrote in message ...
On 10 Jan 2004 17:27:10 -0800 (pdxflyer) wrote:

If you're a pilot with a hair-raising story to tell (and who doesn't
have at least one of those), we encourage you to share it at Pilot
Chronicles.

Here's the deal, this heirarchy is where the stories are....
So there's no incentive to go to that site and post stories
since this is where it's done. It's called Usenet and it's
been around longer than the www. If you're trying to generate
traffic to your site there are other ways to do that. But I suspect
you won't find a lot of people here to post stories there.

You could maintain and host the rec.aviation.piloting FAQs or
you could maintain a list of unique GA planes or like that.

R. Hubbell


Pilot Chronicles is a free website where pilots learn from the
experiences of other pilots. It's a great way to improve your
knowledge and situational awareness. While you're visiting we
encourage you to chronicle one of your own stories - talk about what
happened, how you reacted, and what you learned from the experience.

This is a brand new website so you will be among the first visitors.
We hope you'll help get this project off the ground (bad pun intended)
by posting a story or two. Happy flying!

Ron
Pilot Chronicles
http://www.pilotchronicles.com

A good pilot is always learning... a GREAT pilot shares what they've
learned.

(pdxflyer) writes:

I don't know why your chosen method of defending Usenet is by trashing
the efforts of other web sites.

I don't know why you choose to interpret my explanations as doing either.
Usenet doesn't need defending and your site doesn't need trashing. I'm
quite happy speaking in terms of facts and letting people interpret them
on their own without emotional pleas.

This is troubling and a bit
confusing.

Indeeed. Your interpretation indicates that you have some problems that
I'll be happier to avoid.

If you don't want to use our site to share your pilot
knowledge and experience, that's perfectly fine.

Whew! I was fearing it might not be there for awhile. Thank you for
granting your permission to abstain.

In fact, you
probably wouldn't get much enjoyment out of it because it's not
designed to be a confrontational forum.

Now for *my* interpretation..."Anyone who points out something that is
counter to what we've already considered is being confrontational. We
want to run a site where no dissent is expressed." Am I close?

I think I've been very forthcoming in explaining what we're trying to
accomplish with Pilot Chronicles

I agree, and I think I've been accurate at explaining the things I
have addressed in this thread. Heck, if not for one of us getting all
"troubled and confused," this could simply be an informative thread.

but for some reason you still feel a
need to question our integrity and motives.

Nope. I don't think I have any questions about either. Did you catch
one? Perhaps you'd like to quote it and respond to it in context.

I assume that's why you
posted the name and address of my web development business -

No, it was in response to the text that I quoted directly above it in
which you claimed that it was not a proprietary system.

information which is easily accessible to anyone by simply performing
a search of the whois database.

Congratulations. You are certainly showing yourself to be a wizard of
the Internet and my respect for you continues to grow.

This does however make me question
your integrity since you must feel it's OK to violate the terms and
conditions of the whois database by republishing it's data to a public
forum.

Oh, no! You're right. I'm an awful person with low integrity. Are
you claiming that has anything to do with the validity of the things I
am saying?

Before I end this post (and hopefully this thread)

That sounds like a good indication of how PilotChronicles is likely to
be run. If someone starts to point out anything which the owners do
not wish to consider, *snip* goes the thread.

It's a good illustration of a major Usenet advantage (or disadvantage,
if you like exerting control over the dissemination of dissent).

--kyler

The way this simple announcement about a new website progressed is
precisely the reason Pilot Chronicles exists.

Your last post indicates that you have more than enough time on your
hands to keep this thread going indefinitely, so I'll let you have the
last words. Go ahead... we all know you will.


Ron
Pilot Chronicles
http://www.pilotchronicles.com