Re: OT: Alan Baker a no-show again

On 2025-06-24 09:00, Tom Elam wrote:

On 6/23/2025 12:36 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2025-06-22 12:41, -hh wrote:

On 6/22/25 15:18, Tom Elam wrote:

On 6/22/2025 1:51 PM, -hh wrote:

On 6/20/25 14:07, Tom Elam wrote:

On 6/19/2025 4:30 PM, -hh wrote:

On 6/19/25 08:40, Tom Elam wrote:

On 6/2/2025 6:41 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2025-06-02 15:21, Tom Elam wrote:

On 5/18/2025 2:12 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2025-05-18 08:36, Tom Elam wrote:

On 5/12/2025 11:30 AM, Alan wrote:

On 2025-05-12 07:05, Tom Elam wrote:

On 5/9/2025 1:32 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2025-05-09 06:57, Tom Elam wrote:

On 4/30/2025 7:53 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2025-04-29 13:30, Tom Elam wrote:

Liarchild Baker, pleading something out of his control for no doubt, failed to enter the first SCCBC FF weekend event this past week. Apparently his #21 is sitting idle, for the most part for years now, tires rotting out and otherwise rusting away. In the mean time some new drivers are showing up and running fast times.
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Alan's window for ever winning a FF season trophy is closing fast. He has not been competitive for a long, long, time. That despite his claim to have run a few fast laps in the past.

LOL!
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With every post about this, all you demonstrate is your own ignorance.
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Can you get your pilot's license without a medical, Liarboy?
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So, yes: I didn't enter a race that I couldn't attend, because I couldn't get a medical, and thus couldn't get my license.
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But I'm still teaching racing to new students, and despite your claims of "a long, long, time", I've been competitive every time I've been out.
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:-)

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Quote from my post "pleading something out of his control". That could be passing a medical exam. You simply proved you are too ignorant to read plain English.
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he term "competitive" includes showing up and running a race. The last time you did even that on a regular base was 5 or 6 years ago. Last year you ran in one race, had a wreck, and did not show up again.
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You shouldn't post after you've had too much to drink, Liarboy.

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Unable to deny facts, you default to deflection again.
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You were hardly competitive in the one race you entered last year. There are no results to prove that at all.

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Are you kidding?
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First, I entered TWO races last year, which you knew.
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So you now claiming I only entered one would be a lie, wouldn't it?
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:-)

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I amend my comment, I should have said you only ran on 1 weekend (September) and in only 1 race that weekend. That's from the club championship page at:

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And you're still wrong.
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https://www.sccbc.net/racers/club-championship/2024-sccbc- club- standings/
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I suppose it is possible that you entered other weekends and then canceled. That would not be on the cited record, would it?
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The substance of the comment is unchanged. You have not competed on a regular basis in years.

I TOLD you about the other race weekend I participated in last year, Asshole.

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But it was not a SBBC points race. And as I recall you took the restrictor plate out to increase power of your already incredible detuned Honda engine. Fail.

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I took the restrictor out because I was bored with beating the available FF competition and wanted to see if I could play with the faster classes.
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And regardless of whether or not it was an SCCBC points race, I did compete in it...
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...I still told you about it...
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...asshole.

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One race completed since 10/9/2022? That's it?
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Too embarrassed to admit the truth? Your racing days are over and not even 65 yet? Poor health and/or finances? Or just lost interest? Come on Alan, be honest for a change. CSMA wants to know the truth.

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Once again, besides Alan, the only person who seems to care about it is a luzer stalker located 2,350 miles away who's never tracked an open wheel car.
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In any event, just because you're nosy doesn't mean that you have any right to intrude into peoples' personal lives.
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BTW, I just hit 79. Since you last finished a Formula F SCCBC points race on October 9, 2022 I have flown on 160 days, 377.7 hours, 452 takeoffs/landings of which 159 were CAP cadet flights. Also passed all my FAA physicals and checkrides (most recent on June 13, 2025) on the first try and as of today I am FAA IFR current. Except for some back issues never felt better.

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So what?  How many hours of snorkeling & open wheel racing have you done since Oct 2022?  Heaven forbid that Tommy compare Apples to Oranges!  /s
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If you ever get a chance to go to Croatia do it. It is a beautiful country.

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Gosh someone's forgotten that they've already said that before.
How does the FAA check pilots for senility?  /s
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In any event, we've gotten enough of an 'all clear' to be able to commit to one booking, so things are starting to come back together finally. Not to brag about it, because that's what self- centered people do, but suffice to say that it took us roughly five years to finally get the core element approved.
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-hh

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We get checked for senility at every CAP or FAA checkride.

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And how does that actually work? "Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV"?
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Huh, it's a person knucklehead, a check pilot in the right seat looking for every deviation from the applicable standards.
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Here is a link to the CAP forms he or she fills out for pilot renewal:
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https://www.gocivilairpatrol.com/media/cms/ F_070005A_7EBBF90B76006.pdf > And the underlying FAA private pilot ACS:
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https://www.faa.gov/training_testing/testing/acs/ private_airplane_acs_6.pdf
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For mission pilot - next step beyond just CAP pilot:
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https://www.gocivilairpatrol.com/media/cms/F_070091_C643654236FF9.pdf

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So?  Just which parts of these specifically evaluates for senility?
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Keyword searches on senile, memory, cognition ... are pretty bare.
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And what about the subsequent parts of my post which you're avoiding
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You know:
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TE> ...Tried to get that done for over 6 weeks...
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Appointments can often be quite constraining, especially when one is still working or have other competing requirements...and you're not the only person in the world for which there can be such delays, and that's despite how your schedule is more flexible because you're retired.
 > As for Alan, he is a lying luzer. Confronted with unpleasantness he deflects by bashing the other party.
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Its a sign of senility to not recall one's own prior behavior:
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"A race weekend a month over the summer? Whoopee. Glad he enjoys it."
  - Tom Elam, Wednesday, July 22, 2015 at 12:06:18 PM UTC-4
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Similarly, you told me to go kill myself via a 30 minute dive with just 15 minutes of air ... remember?
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"I'd like to see you try a solo 30 minute dive to 100 feet with only 15 minutes of air, including reserves."
  - Tom Elam, Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 9:57:54 PM UTC-4
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Because for readers who aren't senile, the pattern has clearly been that you're the one who consistently bashes other posters' interests.
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TE> Apples-to-Apples it's hobby versus hobby. Alan has apparently lost
TE> interest in his or cannot finance it. I think that applies to his TE> golf and skiing activities too.
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He's already mentioned a need to get a medical release...
...or did you *also* forget this too already?
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TE> Are you intending to climb Everest? K2? Scuba all the way to the
TE> Amazon headwaters? Hike to the South Pole? Dive on the Titanic?
TE> Sail a Sunfish around the world? Got to be something like that.
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Or flying the same circles in the sky over & over again in a Cessna? /s
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Peoples' personal interests vary and aren't really subject to your or my criticisms on if they align with our own personal preferences .. or not.
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...how is it that you "forgot" to most of the post?

Did you notice how he didn't respond when I asked him if we could ask an experienced road racing instructor and long-time private pilot about the question?
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Maybe he just forgot that too.
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 No I did not forget. He claimed racing is more intense than flying. That was just one person.

Nope. You are misrepresenting what I said.
That's why you got your sobriquet, Liarboy. It's what you always do.
What I said was that racing requires more continuous FOCUS.
Road racing doesn't allow anyone to sight see.