Unbelievable. In six years I've never been critical of you. Then I am, just ONCE, just ONCE, and you can't take it.
Yeah, probably because you were a complete toolbag about it.
You opened with an anecdote about math-illiterate bankers, and "who are you kidding?"
You demanded (repeatedly) that OP learn "parcel theory", but did not provide any sources to learn parcel theory, or even peel off a slice of your imputedly vast knowledge on the subject to encourage him to do so.
When OP was unable to see your educational path and its associated payoffs, you lumped him in with a group of cheapass pilots who never spend a dime on education -- in a thread where the guy is asking for clues and trying to evaluate whether the investment will have any value to him.
You then offer to discount his future posts for not meeting your criteria of excellence, thus throwing ice water on any subsequent fruitful exchange.
Garnish liberally with your patented drama-queen "sigh", and you've got a recipe for "you know what? F skew-T anyway and I'm sorry I asked."
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I was reading on the sidelines because I'm of a similar mind as OP about skew-T.
I live in an area not plagued by T-storms, but fly through those areas frequently enough. I have good tactical experience for staying clear of T-storms, but an additional forecasting tool would be handy for me.
I am always looking for new things to learn that will improve my flying, but I don't throw money at EVERY offering every time, because I am limited in what I can use right now. As such, I focus my educational time.
For example, I also have not personally invested in:
Tailwheel training
Acrobatics
Turbine/Jet type ratings
Formal simulator training at simcom or the like
Altitude chamber training
I have not done these because they do not TODAY offer a value for the type of flying I do, and I instead focus on things that do. For me, this is:
multi-engine dual
IFR dual
The APS online course
The ABS Bonanza and Baron online course
BPPP training
...the above in the last 12 months for me. It's not about the investment dollars, it's about value and relevance. There could be a $1 program that teaches every single thing about acrobatics, but I don't plan to do any just now, so there is no value there.
I have several times come back to Skew-T with interest, because it seems to offer some potential uses for my flying. Similar to OP, I've asked a few local weather bugs for the "high level" view of Skew-T, but none have showed me an example of where skew-T would provide me decisive information to improve the kind of flying I do.
I still believe there is potential. It's why I clicked on this thread. In order to capture my training dollars, though, I need a hint that it will be a useful tool in my toolbag, and not just a mathematical curiousity which sometimes shows an interesting result about convection -- ex post facto.
But man, dog-piling the dude for asking "will I get anything out of this course of study?" is pretty rotten. If the topic can't stand even that low level of questioning, it doesn't seem like a very robust topic to begin with.
So maybe the questions worth answering are:
1. Will Skew-T offer a tactical benefit in my weather brief? If so, in what sorts of conditions?