There are a few people I've talked to via private emails in this thread, and with the exception of them I will say this:
Get a life.
To say I am "afraid" to post here is laughable. I've just been reading the posts here in the morning, sipping hot chocolate before work and wondering where things come from. I can asssure the community of a few things.
Straiga is not Paul Hinds. (That would be Voss)
Straiga's initials are two consecutive letters of the alphabet in reverse. i.e xy his initials would be yx.
He's an ATP, flies for Hawaiian. Gimme a friggin break...I looked at the aerial photo of LAX posted by chairboy several times and if you didn't work for Hawaiian Airlines...would you have picked out that little white speck of an airplane? I didn't.
I know a few former Naval Aviators. For the most part (9/10) they are real level headed, quick thinking and pretty reserved guys. I know 2 and Straiga who are a little more headstrong, less of a 'people pleaser' who will take to the attitude of "Why should I prove myself" just for the sake of a BBs community. I doubt you'll hear from him on this issue. It's easier just to stop posting and go on about his merry way. I think if you went to him directly he would have given the information. Attempting to run him over your virtual coals on a BBs that has no bearing on my daily life anyway...it wouldn't mean anything for me to stop posting here. I'd just stop. Play the game with my squadron and wonder how so many can be so petty.
Grow up. If you want information, requesting it in the form of insults on a public forum isn't going to get you anywhere. You're all pretty smart guys why act like 4 year olds. Not long ago I had a kid come up to me and say he had a moon rock. I took a look at the piece of limestone and asked how he got it. He'd been on the space shuttle and when they stopped on the moon he picked it up. If this had been the BBs the reaction would be to steal the moonrock, place it in a pedestal and labeling it "Justin's moon rock" while asking Justin all these questions to confrm he was an astrounaut. Instead, I took the kid off where we could talk alone. I told him lying isn't a good thing, and where he really got the rock. He said the moon. "Fair enough" I said then proceeded to enlighten him a bit about the shuttle program. It doesn't land on the moon, in fact it doesn't get even 1/2 way there. I asked if he had a college degree...not yet he said. Well when I told him that saying stories like these are going to make people not like him instead of appreciate his imagination...he'd gotten the picture. The other kids forgot about it as soon as it happened but I'd like to think he's not going to do it again.
I don't know the point of that story, but I think dealing in person and being civil will get you further than demanding to be satisfied. If at the very least, you'll earn the respect of whomever you're 'confronting' and that will take you further than you could ever imagine. Good luck.
-Arrive in Las Vegas 10 pm on Sunday. Have an invite to Straiga's house and a lift to the ATP apartments where I'm staying. I won't have my own computer while there so keep your friggin pants on until I get back March 11th to hear what happened.
