Let me guess: Svingen?
It wasn’t more cryptic than that 
So we are not that anonymous after all…
How many French-Norwegians are there flying a DA40-180 at LFPT, or being a member a one of the aeroclubs? And how many N-reg DA40s are there at LFPT?
Ask anyone at EGNE if they know Neil and most know who I am, because that’s my name. The information I have given in passing in my posts identifies me absolutely categorically, which is my choice. But it is my real name :)
Ask around at ESKC for an instrument rated pilot who took a long break from flying and you will quickly find me, too…
The thing to remember when posting in forums is always the same: Never say anything you would not say to a person face to face. And to this I have always kept.
I think that’s a very good policy, with the additional point being that whatever you say on a forum you are saying to anybody who might read it, and that may well include people who are unstable and malevolent. In daily life, away from forums, most normal people don’t run into people like that!
Hi Silvaire,
well, I did not get this kind of reaction recently (there was a murder threat at some stage years and years ago…) but rather stuff like “if you like to do xxx then you better watch what you are writing” on behalf of some folk who felt that criticism on certain things were inappropriate while using a certain infrastructure…. if you get my drift.
My reaction was always the same: We have free speech in this country and I will say what I think, particularly in this field where too many simply shut up. After all, I did not say anything than what AOPA and others have been saying for years too. I will probably never get employment with any of the folks I might have put off, but so be it.
The thing to remember when posting in forums is always the same: Never say anything you would not say to a person face to face. And to this I have always kept.
My forum name is a “French” form of my last name.
Let me guess: Svingen?
That would be Piard, CFII and the P210 he sold is N210EU recently in the news in the UK for having carried a very large payload of cocaine.
Correct. Except for the reg. But irrelevant…
Actually I did not know about the latest news.
Sorry about the drift.
And I am also a member of “Air et Aviation” on FB – under my own name.
How much information is there really in a name such as “Michael” or “Peter” or “Neil”? Even assuming that these are the person’s real
Ask anyone at EGNE if they know Neil and most know who I am, because that’s my name. The information I have given in passing in my posts identifies me absolutely categorically, which is my choice. But it is my real name :)
Playing briefly with the database I have access to at work… There are over 1000 John Evanses living in this small corner of Wales alone and even seemingly unusual names can throw up several dozen hits.
By contrast I’m not quite a googlewhack (there is an American transvestite of the same name so I don’t google myself at work) and my son has only one namesake on all of Facebook.
It’s definitely not a level playing field.
