What is with little aerodromes?

[Colonel]

It's not just little airports.  Check out
your local yacht club or horticultural
society, and you'll find enough drama
that you don't need to watch Coronation
Street any more, even if you stick with
Murdoch Mysteries.

You wouldn't think skiing could get people
that worked up, either, but:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_ce ... sonalities

[quote]Scott Abraham – skiing enthusiast banned by court order in 1999 from posting on the Usenet discussion group "rec.skiing.alpine", after engaging in a flame war with other online posters.

The heated exchanges lasted for months, eventually escalating into [b]death threats[/b], until a police detective from Seattle posted a request for all involved to calm down.

All involved did except Abraham, which ultimately led to a court order being filed against him.[/quote]

People are dicks.  Most people have absolutely
no redeeming characteristics.

Get a dog.

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He probably flies better than most human
pilots, too.

PS  Spent 2 hours mowing grass at the airport
today.  I am sure no one noticed, and no one
cares, and I'm ok with that.  They're ok with
it looking like a complete dump.  I'm not.

[Colonel]

You must be in Ontario, right?  ;D

Ask for forgiveness, not permission.

As Col John Boyd once said, everyone
has to make a decision in life, whether
to do something, or be someone.

[mmm...bacon]

[quote author=SSU link=topic=318.msg1077#msg1077 date=1434915344]
The thing is they do care it looks like a dump, but my God it needs to go through ten comittees before its ok with everyone, so I found out today that my "just go do it" method really created some havoc. I didn't know my new home field had factions like some medieval Italian citystate, at least not until today. You can't make this stuff up. And I thought the old place was bad.
[/quote]
?Unclear?  What is it that you just 'did'?  Mowed, painted lines, put up a new windsock?

[Colonel]

[quote]Just mowed the grass[/quote]

The nerve of you!

But seriously ... fuck the whining princess
divas and keep on cutting the grass.

I had a similar experience this winter.  Big
plow truck blew a hydraulic hose.  I pulled
it - in an unheated building, it was fucking
miserable - and had Bobby fix it, and I put
it back on.  I spilled a little hydraulic fluid
and I knew that the local fat-asses that
stayed away in a nice warm building would
have a cow.

Sure enough, they did.  At a board meeting,
one of the princesses made a HUGE deal
out of the tiny amount of hydraulic fluid
that got spilled, when the repair got done
for free. 

Remember, he stayed away someplace
warm when the repair needed to be done -
and it was done for free by me and Bobby
instead of for $$$ by a contractor.

I emailed him, and cc'd everyone else
that I was sick and tired of his princess
back-stabbing, and the next time I met
him, I was going to shove my size 11
boot up his lazy ass.

And, that was the last time he attacked
a volunteer for doing work that wasn't
up to his standards.

Don't take any shit from the asshole bullies
that are everywhere.  Someone comes to
me spoiling for a fight, I will gladly indulge
his need for physical violence.

[Chuck Ellsworth]

Your style of writing is so refreshing and understandable Colonel.
;D

Every airport I have seen has their little power Nazis in the committees.

When I owned my flight school the airport committee asked me if I would be a volunteer fire truck driver, I said sure.

A few days later the airport manager came to my office and said to get my permit to drive on the airport I had to take a radio user test with him.

I asked him what it entailed and he said he had to be sure I knew how to use the radio when talking to FSS.

I was gobsmacked, he did not know sweet fuck all about anything on an airport, only a few months before had asked me how they chose those numbers on the end of the runway.  ( He had been moved from city hall to the airport )

Anyhow I told him I had no intention of taking a radio use test with him and told him to shove the fire truck up his ass.


About a month later there was a Navajo gear up on the runway and FSS called me to take the fire truck to the airplane, I told them I couldn't because I did not have a license to use the fire truck radio....

....all hell broke loose because the closest fire truck was in Ladysmith and it took forever to get there, the commission wanted me to take the test so the next time there was an accident I could drive the fire truck...I told them I wouldn't take the test if their office was on fire.

They make the rules but they can't force you to play their game...bureaucrats are the same the world over.

[Slick Goodlin]

My home airport is just lovely.  Maybe I'm seeing things through rose coloured glasses because every time I show up it's a vacation from all other BS or maybe I'm just well equipped to laugh off other people's pettiness.

...or holy crap, maybe I'm the asshole.  That one could keep me up all night.

[Nark1]

I'm pretty fortunate. I hangar my plane at a Class D airport owned by the city. Everything gets done on my $150/month fee.
I don't have to deal with assholes.

However, as I can imagine, you can't have a multitudes of Chiefs without a single Indian, right? 

My dream is own a field, that I mow, and I up keep, for my own plane. Don't like my rules? Don't land there!