Denny wrote:
We can snicker all we want at the clueless reporting of a liberal arts
major, low man on the totem pole, who gets sent to report on general
aviation - but how many of us have contacted the paqper and the tv
station and offered to take the general news reporter(s) flying on a
saturday afternoon so we can teach them the basics?


I've never bothered. I have suggested to them that before they ever ran an
aviation story, they ought to run it through their on-staff aviation expert to
make sure it made sense: their helicopter pilot. He's just a phone call away,
they already know him, and he knows flying.

Judging from the quality of their later aviation stories, they couldn't be
bothered. As a result, aircraft engines continue to stall and airplanes crash
because the pilot's medical had expired.

Is it any wonder that I take a newspaper's endorsement of a politician with a
grain of salt? They **** everything else up; why not that?



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Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com