Have you learned something here on PoA?

Have you learned useful techniques from PoA?

  • Yes, PoA taught me something new and awesome

    Votes: 63 98.4%

  • No, I knew everything I needed to know already.

    Votes: 1 1.6%
  • Total voters
    64
The definition of thixotropic. Someone here googled it for me.
 
I learn constantly on here. Just got done reading the 182 thread. Before today I didn't know much about them other than there's a turbo RG next to my plane on the ramp.

Now I know they're docile, though heavy, creatures.
 
I learn a lot here and am grateful when my questions are answered.
I am not a fixed wing pilot and many of my clients are; so the different perspectives here are useful when I am trying to communicate.
I find that I have reconsidered concepts that I felt were settled. I may come to the same conclusion yet I feel confused on a higher level.
I appreciate the positive affirmations that I occasionally find here.
Thank you all for contributing to my learning.
 
I've learned a ton about cirrus training programs from people that haven't gone through the training program.

Also I still go back and forth on the treadmill issue.
 
In addition to flying related stuff, I've learned about big trucks, jet skis, boat trailers, frogs, boobs, and that small penis syndrome runs rampant in A&Ps.
 
I learn something!

People log on to this website for different reasons, Some to troll, some to vent some political frustrations, some to teach others...etc. I can honestly say I learn something the majority of the time. I know I get heckled all the time about: "Why don't you just google it and find the answer" but in this day and age when people google everything we tend to lose more and more interaction with people. Not only that someone else will post another idea in the thread and that will get answered too, something that I never thought of. POA has been great and so have most of the members I come in contact with.
 
Here is my take... it's like panning for gold, there are genuine nuggets out there but you need to sift through a lot of worthless dirt to find them. When I have the knowledge to answer a technical question I make it a point to reply with serious, valuable, detailed information. The aviation community really needs a valuable forum for the dissemination of important, factual, unbiased information and POA could be it. The problem, of course, is that many contributors are offering uneducated opinions, sarcastic commentary, and off-topic dialogue.

That being said there is value in opinions, idle dialogue, humor and even sarcastic bantering. It would be nice for the "Flight Following" and "Maintenance Bay" forums to be split into two branches: one branch for serious, factual Q&A and one branch for opinions and everything else. That would make it easier to find the real gold. Many posted topics are actually seeking opinions and even a little social interaction - that is perfectly fine! I often enjoy these threads myself. However there is some gray area where a serious question is posted and the thread mutates totally off topic and, as pointed out above, sometimes turns into a ****ing contest. This degrades the value of the forum in my opinion.

As for the contributors that have many thousands of posts to their credit I look at their comments with reservation. Are they competing for some meaningless distinction of top score, like the people addicted to Pac-man once upon a time? Or are they really committed to helping people that come to the forum seeking answers to important questions? As I read the comments by these forum addicts I size them up - if I rate them with a low score I simply ignore their replies. We do have a few seriously great mega-contributors and I look forward to reading everything they post. Anyway, that's my 2 cents... Rob
 
I think an "I learned something" button would provide better incentives than the "Like" button.
 
Rob58 said:
Here is my take... it's like panning for gold, there are genuine nuggets out there but you need to sift through a lot of worthless dirt to find them. When I have the knowledge to answer a technical question I make it a point to reply with serious, valuable, detailed information. The aviation community really needs a valuable forum for the dissemination of important, factual, unbiased information and POA could be it. The problem, of course, is that many contributors are offering uneducated opinions, sarcastic commentary, and off-topic dialogue.
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I've certainly learned a lot but it's often not worth the time. I think the term is 'too low a signal to noise ratio'. It's always been that way. Great way to while away some time when trapped at my desk but otherwise my presence indicates that I'm either excited about a flight and have no one else to share with, or that the cable guy is making his semi-annual visit.

But that is the nature of public unmoderated forums. Smaller more focused forums have higher signal to noise ratios. The best ones are 'self moderated' for the most part.

Cable guy is done, later folks!


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I've learned that this is the place to come for a good laugh. Some of the intentionally comical responses crack me up. Nice to know there are pilots out there that are just as twisted as I am!
 
Painless, I concur! I have learned "stuff" but the humor is what keeps me coming back.
 
If Sully were here he might say:

I learned on POA, that even if you save everyone on board after a double engine flame out over a highly congested area, someone will be along shortly to tell you how bad a job you did and things would've been better if you had just done "X" ....:eek::confused:;)
 
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