Hi Stu48,

I wonder if the 48 relates to your birth year. If so you beat me out of the egg by a year :-) Who the hell cares who uses what. This hobby can allow anyone to have whatever the heck he likes in an aircraft. If someone finds it makes his plane fly better, good on him. My only beef is if they are sneakily used in some competitive flight, but there are people who check the planes before the event I assume. Never having taken part in any events myself.

Let it go guys, the people who don't like them, don't bloody use them. If you like them, tell the world, it's your right. I just don't think anyone should condemn anyone else should they wish to use one. If it saves an aircraft from drilling holes in a runway, great. if it makes a one eyed 80 year old or a 16 year old boy to be more relaxed in his flying, great. Just don't put rules on who can or can't do what with his own property.

If anyone says he's flying without one and he is, so bloody what. Stop being so nosey about other people's business. These "I don't mind if you use one, BUT" people need to remember this isn't a life or death pastime, it's a hobby, they should treat it as one.

I haven't used one as yet, but intend to. Should anyone make fun of me or condemn me for using one to my face. I'd pop one on him on the spot, then laugh and get on with what I enjoy, flying. Not because I have to, but because I want to. You figure out the difference. One thing I've just thought of, whoever I wish to "pop one on" will have to get on his knees, it's awkward trying to pop, in a wheelchair :-)
Enjoy yourselves in a way which you enjoy. Get to my and Stu48's age and you start realising there ain't enough time to be miserable.

Stu49