There was  a time when this forum was without doubt the best of the bunch, in the main friendly, and populated by very knowledgeable  people; it hasn’t been that for quite a while, the way people use the internet has changed and members have been lost, but now in the same way British politicians are a laughing stock of the world, this forum has become the laughing stock  of the aviation community.

It fails the friendly community test on the front page, where you used to feel welcome, and clicking on threads would show up those who were reading/commenting; every bit of this forum is (to be blunt) crap, and the photos that basically made the “place” live are so absent that it feels a sterile as a hospital notice board.

As a member for nearly 14 years, I am more than disappointed that all of my photos have disappeared together with threads that I started, and indeed all personal information about me, and everyone else, again part of what made this a community.

If this forum served no other purpose than that of a meeting place,(and lets face it, over 20 odd years much of what has been posted on here, has made it’s way into one or another of their magazines)  KEY should have been proud of this, as something they had facilitated,; now look at it, a major own goal guys.