Are we bringing this up again? Sheesh, I apologized for my statement and if you recall I took a lot of abuse well before hand. Go ahead and ban me. It will be no different than the people that chose to ban themselves. I really coud care less.
Trust works both ways also. I'm sure if I wanted to I could dig up dirt on anyone here and probably cite some dangerous flying from many people. It is time to move on and get the experienced guys to contribute. I am a noob in many ways and in many ways I have a lot of experience. We can all help each other if he egos are put in check. Or, we can all be tough guys and push away the new pilots and the experienced ones that don't have time to play games.
First of all, no one is going to Ban you, and it would not be up to Steve anyways. So don't worry about it.
I did want to address something you have brought up a few times though. You talk about how there are alot of great experienced people out there that aren't participating on the forum for one reason or another. I want to shed some gyro community history on you so you will better understand.....
Back in the 60's through the 80's, people who built and flew gyros all flew pretty simular machines, and for the most part all seemed to get along real well. In the 1980's and early 90's people started using engines with reduction drives and big props, gyros with high thrustlines were starting to become common. And in those days not many people used a horizontal stabilizer.
Gyro crashes were becoming more and more common and for the most part people didn't understand why.
In the 1990's there was alot more attention paid to why some of the these crashes took place and what would have prevented them. Things like Centerline thrust and horizontal stabilizers were brough to light as things that would help prevent accidents and make gyros safer. Kits offering gyros with these design features began to hit the marketplace, such as Dominator, and even kits like Aircommand were redesigned to have these new features.
Now what does that have to do with why some people won't post on here?
Well this is why.... Whether it was good or bad, the gyro community pretty much split in two over the isssue of the importance of things such as... 1. new pilots should use a CFI to learn to fly and not self teach, 2. all gyros should have a effective horizontal stabilizer 3. all gyros should have centerline thrust or at least as low of a offset as possible.
You had people on one side of the fence saying " Im self taught, and if I can do it, anyone can do it " While others would say " there are 20+ experienced certified gyro flight instructors, why risk your butt when you can do it safely with a CFI " ......
You had people on one side of the fence saying " Those gyros ( usually RAF2000's ) should have a horizontal stabilizer and less people would die in them " Then the other people would counter and say " There are three hundred of them flying out there with billions of fleet hours and without stabs, so your wrong "
You get the picture right?
Needless to say there were some NASTY heated debates and discussions on the various message boards and forums over the last 15 or so years. Alot of people got their feelings hurt, there were many people that just simply got out of gyros all together over it.
In the end, the gyros that are new to the market these days, the bulk of them are what almost everyone considers a modern safe, well designed and stable gyro.
But because of all the stuff said on the internet, alot of people just won't participate anymore on the forums. Especially those that are of the side that feel self training is okay... that horizontal stabs are not needed.... or that thrustline offsets are not important.
Its too bad they don't want to participate on here anymore. But hearing how you got so many emails and PM's from people, at least it's nice to know they are still reading the forum even if they choose not to post on it.