Reply #38: I try very hard to be patient

[OnTheOtherHand]

If I believed what you believe, I would feel ethically obligated to offer better arguments than the arguments you offer. That's definitely a source of tension between us.

That said, I think it's utter bullshit -- and, perhaps not coincidentally, a wild derail -- to say that I endlessly impugn you.

Your inability to see how massively exceeding the Vmo by a novice pilot is a problem.

"massively"? "a problem"? spooked, it isn't my responsibility to make your arguments make sense, much less to find the supporting evidence. That is your responsibility. If the best you can do is to tell me to watch YouTubes, then at some point I have to wonder if you even know what your argument and evidence are. If you feel impugned by that, well, I'd encourage you to stop whining about it and change your behavior.

ETA: When I was, maybe, 12, I read a book about the Bermuda Triangle, and I pretty much accepted everything it said. So I told one of my older brothers about it, and he started asking pointed questions -- like, "Do you know of any evidence corroborating this claim?" and even "Is there any possible way that the author could know this, even if it is true?" Pretty soon I realized that (1) a lot of the author's purported facts might or might not be true, and (2) the author wasn't a reliable source. That may have been my first lesson in skepticism.

The pilots' citation of an irrelevant technical document to interpret the log files indicates that they aren't a reliable source. That doesn't mean that they are wrong about everything, but I don't feel any obligation to slog through their five-part video on the off chance that there is a pony in there somewhere. If there is, I honestly think that you are ethically obligated to bring it to our attention -- not to complain about how effing lawyerly I am.