I'm not making excuses for him, and I agree, he went off the deep end, it happens. He's very passionate about safety. Think of him as an old man with aviation as his lawn yelling at the kids to quit messin up his grass lol.
As I maintained all through that thread and here is "I don't care what anyone does except I don't appreciate the potential conflict it puts me in to have a plane, or a flight, in my vertical column of airspace when I'm on final. It's very bad form, yet I have witnessed that very situation, an OB coming in for the break overflying a guy on final. That is very poor etiquette in my book and I did not like it. To this point, no one has told me an advantage to an OB vs. a straight in. By the nature of a straight in you get the "stand on" position over someone arriving similarly from down wind. I can come in straight in from behind the OB crowd and by their actions establish ROW. I don't particularly care who it is doing this, but observationally, since the last time I watched military jets doing OBs at NAS Boca Chica (that was my daily view from the reef for 2 years) I have only seen the maneuver done by RVs. At Boca Chica I literally witnessed every plane the US arsenal had operate into there, watching the F-14 come smoking into the pattern from off shore, pulling a very steep bank turn simultaneously sweeping forward the wings and putting out the gear and roll out of the turn just as the transfiguration was finishing up. It was impressive. Rarely did I see them break before mid field. B-1Bs were interesting to watch as well. All that time, I never saw them stack traffic over final.
