You can’t count the likes of ILFC, GATX, etc as they’re just leasing companies!

Caledonian got rid of their 757s (back to BA?) some years pre-JMC and replaced them with the A320s that I think went to Thomas Cook Belgium. The original JMC 757s were ex-Flying Colours then supplemented with ex-Russian airframes and brand new ones. Current company policy is to only operate aircraft less than 10 years old.

Absolutely agree with Mongu except I think he himself would make an ideal moderator. In fact there are many AW members with a huge number of postings who would make very good moderators. I do also believe that one forum (either GD or a new forum) should remain unmoderated as it creates an area for the serial flamers to congregate and get off on their wierd pleasures!

Having recently been ‘moderated’ myself recently (a matter in which I fully agree with the webmaster) I do feel that more active moderation is required to maintain the very high standards that we enjoy in my main forum (AW). The classic situation that showed this was Hellaid. A little bit of webmaster ‘policing’ could have guided this chap into becoming a reasonable poster. Instead of this, through lack of knowledge about forum etiquette he became vilified and derided. One of the greatest things about aviation for me is sharing it with other people. People join these forums because they already have a love of aviation so if they don’t know how to fit in we should guide them rather than drive them away. A current situation that shows this is EAL King. EAL King struggles with his use of spelling and grammar, initially solely posting in text language but his basic desire is aviation. While he still occasionally reverts back to type on the odd occasion he is making a real effort to write messages that we can now understand. Even if he still only makes sense half the time he is really getting something out of the forum. There is a family element to the AW forum that I have never seen on any other.

Regards
wys

Originally posted by Domin
I say regards a lot too, and while i agree with many people about the avatar, both for and against, it simply boils down to this: that kind of image violates the rules of conduct on the forum.

Nuff said!

Regards

Domin

…which is exactly why I said in both my first 2 posts on this thread that it was right to go. I have absolutely no disagreement with not upsetting the masses. What I do disagree with is creation of a group of imaginary alter egos to create the impression of ‘the masses’ by an individual. That is a form of genteel fraud.

Regards (and how that word became involved I have no idea!)
wysiwyg

I hope so, it’s a stunning piece of kit.

I feel like I’ve been hijacked! However it appears that there are more sinister things going on in this thread. Go to the thread on the general discussion forum and take a look at page 2 to find out more…

But the wonderful thing about this thread is that the complainers are giving it even more airplay!!! I had to laugh when I saw that the post has been transferred to this forum and even more so that the picture has been removed from the original post EVEN THOUGH THERE WERE ALL THOSE WARNINGS NOT TO LOOK IF YOU ARE OFFENDED!!!

Comet/VLMflyer – as Ren points out, the connection with the three ‘engineers’ really is a bit too obvious! By the way, it just so happens that EdmundHalley uses the phrase ‘Number one COMET chaser’ under his name and VLMflyer uses ‘Number one VLM fan’. Follow this train of thought – Edmund Halley who discovered Halleys COMET. Bearing in mind you also have a thread running about multiple user names it looks like you’re as guilty as a puppy sitting next to a pile of pooh! 😉

Kindest regards
wysiwyg
(I only require one user name on this forum to pass my message!)