Airbill,

What benefit comes from naming pilots that have had serious personal, health and career problems on a public message board?

It seems extremely classless and achieves nothing. Show some respect to those who are less fortunate than you or many of our peers that could at one point or another during their careers have faced a similar situation.

No one named the CHQ pilot that had an issue, although everyone knows his name. The system prevented both pilots from endangering anyone, unlike the situation where the pilot actually flew the aircraft and ultimately his Captain turned him at their destination. In the Captain's defense, he was a very young man and a new Captain at the time of the incident. I'd like to think he learned from the experience and would handle it differently if faced with the same situation today.

It's easy to get caught up in the emotion of the issues, especially on an anonymous message board, but that is no excuse for attacking a pilot or pilots that have suffered, and will continue to suffer, without having an opportunity to defend themselves in these fora.

We should not abandon respect, common decency and class regardless of how contentious or emotional we become while arguing about issues that are relatively minor in the grand scheme of world issues.

Before anyone else points it out, I have not always followed these tenets myself, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't all continuously strive to do better.

Discuss, argue and debate, but how about we leave the names of the defenseless out of the discussion, especially when it brings nothing of substance to the discussion.