Well done KARFA!

On an otherwise slow news day, today’s announcement is significant! The FT community can look forwards to continuity of tariff free TP Run advice and much much more! Well deserved KARFA

Congratulations KARFA - it’s because of people like you that the forum is such an amazing fount of knowledge and good humour. You’ve always added insight and balance in your posts so it’s great that this is now recognised!

Welcome to the Ambassador team KARFA and I was really pleased to read this news.

He's such a valuable member on here and is always extremely helpful and very knowledgeable :tu::) (and a real AV geek too!)

Having known him since joining FT and many, many encounters over the years I can say with great honesty he is a genuine and friendly person. Some of the guides he has produced and others he has been heavily involved in are now embedded in the very foundations of the BA Forum Dashboard. Keep up the fantastic work KARFA and as the old song goes.......... "We'll Meet Again"!

Congratulations KARFA on a well deserved appointment. Your contributions to this board have been greatly appreciated by myself, and I'm sure by many, many others.

​​​​​​I used to think I could do a decent amount of damage to a CE bar cart on a domestic hop until I read about the exploits of a certain young man! :D

As it relates to FT, what is the difference between a moderator and ambassador?

Ambassadors promote the forum, Moderators moderate the forum. So good cop, bad cop. Ambassadors greet and encourage newcomers in particular, moderators often find themselves dealing with the more established inmates. So hatch and dispatch.

Not all forums have them but the skill sets are different, the responsibilities too. Personally I think the way the BA forum balances this up contributes to its utlity and staying power.

Very well deserved - thanks for all of your contributions and keeping the forum on track!

Big congrats KARFA - well deserved! :)

Do they keep score? Because I think I may have had a couple of "off-topic" posts this year, but have a feeling I got off lightly... ;)

Congratulations KARFA and thank you for your help and advice on several occasions this year.

I have a question though. Do you and C-W-S work for BA or just fly a lot? I just wonder how both of you know so much about everything and assumed you both worked there but I'd really like to know.

Congratulations and well deserved. I had the honour of meeting KARFA at one of the simulator sessions, and I am forever grateful that he was able to organize those events and I decided to spend the money to cross the Atlantic to attend. I think it would be like not flying Concorde - one of those bucket list things that all of a sudden cannot be done any more.

I gained a very valuable skill from the simulator sessions, but not what you might think. I'm incredibly squeamish about anything medical, and needles and getting jabs or a blood test in particular. I usually manage to pass out when I need one. Now however, I can transport myself in my mind to short finals and I start running through the landing checklist, then the gear goes down, speedbrakes armed, there's the 100 feet announcment, start the flare, drift down to 10 feet, kiss the runway with the main landing gear, push control column forward and the nosewheel is just about to touch -Oh! You're finished now nurse? Well, getting that needle wasn't so bad was it?

Congratulations ! Well deserved for a constant contributor of competent knowledge to the BA Forum.

Cheers!

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None of the Ambassadors, nor the moderators, work for BA and are wholly independent. The knowledge any one individual has is acquired only by travelling.

Beyond that, Internet Brands - the owner of Flyertalk - has a privacy policy which means no-one on this site should have to reveal any of their personal details.

KARFA. Well done.

One of the nicer people on this forum.

What more can be said?