[rant on]I am so happy for you guys talking about your jets and all the problems you have with your fuel cards. Really. It's just not a problem many of of have, so congrats. This little piece for the internet has turned sideways for us small time dudes that can't afford or don't desire whatever jets you are talking about. It would be nice to have discussions about things other than which $4.5mil jet is best. Again, congrats to you but it gets tiresome for us normals.

I think it's time for a separate thread for us less financially endowed people. I have a hard time sifting through this to find something useful and I am not very interested in which $300,000 batch of avionics you are throwing into your jet. Any help here, or do we just move on? It's getting tiresome.

Let's call the new thread "Brand X for Prop Planes" and the other thread whatever they want.[/rant on]

[flame suit on]Ready for incoming.[/flame suit on]

I’m surprised the poors are on this forum. Plane ownership of any type is a real first world problem.

I take it you're being ironic.
But some of you rich people need poor people like me* to fly them around safe and sound. BT is an excellent resource, not just for plane ownership...

*although I count myself lucky to now not be poor anymore. Still, affording an aircraft is out of this realm.

He is jealous that the Raptor is down near the bottom of the thread!!
Maybe they need.
Brand X Poor House
Brand X Jet Elite
Brand X Prop on Top (Rotorheads)

David,
...a suggestion..

You can X off any thread that you don’t want to see, and none of that thread’s posts will show up when you click on the “View Unread Posts” link. There are many threads I discard just based on their subject line; I simply don’t have time to read them all. For example, here I have X’d off 3 threads that I know I won’t want to read...


If you click on and open a thread and then see you don’t want to be bothered with that thread in the future, just click the “Ignore” button, and it’ll never come up again.

You can even block entire Forums. Go to “Forum Home” and click the forum you don’t want to see, then click “Ignore Forum.” None of that Forum’s posts will show up when you click “View Unread Posts.” For example, I have blocked the Beech Turbines Forum; if I choose to click on that Forum anyhow, you can see I have it on “Ignore” now....with the option to “unignore” it if I want to start seeing those posts again.


Simplify your BT reading experience...

I don’t get it - nothing precludes posts about “interesting” aircraft. There’s one on 400hp Twin Comanches below.
The P210 seems like a great aircraft. Why not start a thread, and just ignore the threads that don’t interest you?

I suggest heading over to PilotsofAmerica.com where there are few of any “high rollers” and the soup is made of average dopes flying GA junk. Is that what you are looking for? Kind of a cheap strip club feel, except for planes.

I think what the OP is speaking about the aviation content shift over the years. We used to be more like an ‘ABS Magazine’ content forum, now it seems to him BT has shifted toward significantly more ‘Twin and Turbine’ or ‘NBAA’ content due to many member upgrades over the past few years.

I am quite happy with my little E55 Baron after 11 years of ownership, however, someone else may be on the upgrade ladder and will own their Beechcraft as a step to a turboprop or jet. They move up aircraft but don’t necessarily move up in aviation forum. I guess there is no PhenomTalk.

This happens in many online forums, they evolve with both time and membership growth. You leave for a few years and then come back and you hardly recognize the place.

The "Sugar Shack" feel? Beckley, West Virginia. Those gals come in fresh out of the log woods (30 years ago). Everybody is welcome, and nobody is frowning

Well I really enjoy reading here about planes which I may never own.

I’m not going to pay membership for citation jet pilots, so I actually feel privileged to hear about the journey that some pilots make.

Don’t forget there are a number of pilots on this forum who have moved from piston singles all the way through to jets.

If they were genuinely jet elite, they wouldn’t be here.

I’m with Arlen. I immediately mark “ignore” to jets, etc.. When I use View Unread, I don’t see them.

For me, they don’t exist, and BT is uncluttered.

Well done.

David,

I get what you are saying, and sometimes feel that way too. But there is often some good advice or information conveyed in many of these high dollar threads. I’ll never have a fuel card, but I particularly enjoyed the fuel card discussion as I am interested in the FBO business and how it operates. We’re all lumped into “General Aviation”, and I am OK with that.

Maybe I am lazy but selecting and marking threads to ignore seems like a lot of busy work. . I just scroll through pick and choose what I want to read.

Rich

[rabbittrail] “GA junk” is right. But the best part of PoA is the medical discussions. I really think most of them are serious, though anywhere else they’d be obvious trolls. “I have a dream to fly for the airlines and my AA accountability partner says they’ll overlook my past problems. I did a short stint in prison when I was found with a small amount of cocaine in my glove box during a DUI stop. Also, I did a little more time for vehicular manslaughter when I ran over a toddler on a tricycle. I’ve been clean for quite some time now (4 months) and I’m really getting my life together. I’m not proud of what I’ve done. I just want to follow my dream. Is this realistic?” [/rabbittrail]

Never say never. I'm primarily on BT to meet a single woman with a fuel card. It could change my life.