🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi everyone,


> The Fly-In will happen on Saturday, May 29 between 1900 and 2300 ZULU time.
> We will have the support of many ATC controllers! Again - the main reason of
> this Fly-In is that YOU DONATE and then fly to Tirana and (virtually)
> support the refugees there!
> Visit http://www.aua.com/virtual/kosovo.html for more information!
>
> The main reason why this event happens is not to have "fun in the sky" but
> to help the refugees of the Kosovo war and spend money to help them. This is
> normally absolute no "business" of AVA - and we are far away from any
> political or religious point of view in that conflict - but it is our human
> obligation to support that people now. This is why we initatiated the
> Fly-In. Even if you dont want to fly or dont have the time - please help
> now!

I'm afraid that this enterprise is not as politically innocent as Michael Mak
wants us to believe. Of course, there is nothing wrong with helping people who
suffer from belligerent conflicts. However, the particular choice far from
strictly humanitarian,  but is definitely committed to a political view that is
strictly in line with NATO war propaganda. What about Serbian refugees? What
about people who lost their homes and family members due to NATO bombings? Why
does the fly-in ignore them and why are donations intended to go only to one
(politically correct) side?

No doubt, everyone is free to adopt his/her own view on the political situation
and war conflict in Kosovo and to support, and donate to, whoever s/he believes
should be supported. Neverthelesse I think that political actions and propaganda
have absolutely nothing to do in flightsim newsgroups and should be kept out of
a community whose common bond is flight simulation, and nothing else.

Sascha

Sascha W. Felix
felix@phil.uni-passau.de