Something strange, the 777 can do mid-flight refueling :-)

I hope I don't offend anyone but I thought I'd just put in my 2 pence here (notice pence, British you see).

I think sometimes on forums it's difficult to tell 'tone' of a response and things can be read in very different ways; sometimes offense can be taken when none was meant and this is one consequence of this form of communication.

In my humble opinion, the original post was quite open, relaxed, non-critical and seemed to me to emphasise that it should be taken in a light hearted fashion with a 'laughing' emoticon at the end making this as clear as it could. I feel that light hearted posts should be met with fairly light hearted jokey responses, and if you read Kyles post cold you would be forgiven in thinking it doesn't come across that way (no offense Kyle ).

Taking this post aside, and being sympathetic to Kyle (there are always two sides), he is very good with responses and tries to the best of his abilities to answer questions posed here, however there are times when comments by posters are inflammatory, often deliberately so. I can only speak for myself but I know for me this would really grind my gears (family guy reference) and perhaps my frustration would come out in short curt responses when a more relaxed approach would have been better, but meh, I'm human.

For what it's worth, I don't think it's a 'bug' either, but the OP makes a useful and valid observation, I think for testing purposes having it remain operational in flight is also useful too.

Regards