Don't mean to be critical, just my impression for what it's worth. I belong to numerous forums out of necessity; Biplane Pilot, VW Touareg, Wondershare, Filmora, Serif, and many more. I am sure that most products will eventually require forum membership in order to replace tech support. There is a wealth of help from precious volunteers. As much as I have used electronics over the years and 13,000 flying hours in a host of flying machines over 56 years and flying my P2, I really needed help to get my
P4P+ going. I asked for help in this forum and my only response was, "read the manual.". Of course I had read it in total at least twice and tried numerous times to figure out what I was doing wrong. As I have written before, it took 4 very good techies several hours trying to get the beast going. I have no problem admitting lack of ability when I'm on new ground. Every forum I have ever participated in has been extremely helpful and quite pleasant to communicate with; with one exception. At this point, I feel very lucky that I was only told to, "read the manual." Reading the hatefulness of some replies to inquiries, makes it hard for some of us to venture into the target area. A good example might be ,"Toughen up, Buttercup". What a jerk. Please excuse my not being politically correct but a jerk needs to be called a jerk. I expect to feel the wrath of some of the members and that's OK. There are lots of very nice people in this forum but the bad ones should join the rest of humanity. I have never seen such verbal abuse in any other forum. Nor have I seen such infantile tags in any other professional forums. Makes one wonder what kind of folks have joined into this incredible occupation/hobby. This is written in the hope that this forum can be "cleaned up" a bit and marshaled like most others to prevent it from appearing so unappealing and someplace newbies like me would want to be involved in. Anyone reading the responses might be very reluctant to participate. The many good guys in this forum might understand my concern and the others will prove my point.