Originally Posted by
Captain Bligh
Does anyone screen new APC account applicants for credentials? For crying out loud! Some of these people are asking questions a private pilot should know. Clearly the AIM is a document that can be researched online. It's fine to lurk as a non-pilot, but the 3 page posts of nothing but elementary questions about SAR and other established procedures contribute nothing to the discussion.
Mods can anything be done here?
Unfortunately, that's not the (main) problem. The issue here (in this incident) is that there's other forums (not so much this one, thankfully) where people trying to impress reveal information about the aircraft, how to 'turn this off' or how to 'disengage that' etc etc, thereby inadvertently and foolishly making things easier for the bad guys.
And then there's the media, throwing around big $$s, booking sim time to actually demonstrate how to do some of those things (member Timbo mentioned something about CNN doing exactly that and it's just one example).
I don't know why (almost exclusively ignorant) people keep talking and talking and talking nonsense when clearly there's virtually zero evidence to support any particular theory. It's a circus, all over the world.