C-172 down at HPN - 2 fatalities

"Wizard of Draws" wrote in
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Even when we did a story on the flight school I trained at, and I pointed
out a number of glaring errors long before deadline, they were not fixed.
Among other things, it "sounded better" to say "license to fly" when the
student had only soloed.

Sorry, I don't see what's inaccurate there. A solo endorsement *is* a
license to fly (but not with passengers). Why not refer to it as such?

--Gary

On 4/27/05 8:51 PM, in article , "Gary
Drescher" spewed:

"Wizard of Draws" wrote in
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Even when we did a story on the flight school I trained at, and I pointed
out a number of glaring errors long before deadline, they were not fixed.
Among other things, it "sounded better" to say "license to fly" when the
student had only soloed.

Sorry, I don't see what's inaccurate there. A solo endorsement *is* a
license to fly (but not with passengers). Why not refer to it as such?

--Gary


The article was written as if his training was over and he had been given
his certificate. I won't get into a semantic argument about license v.
certificate, but the article taken as a whole was entirely misleading and
inaccurate. Keeping in mind that newspapers become historical documents, if
a reporter can't get a story right, it shouldn't be written.

In light of the fact that I am a pilot and everyone in the office knows it,
I don't think it would have been too much to expect a reporter to just cross
the room and have me proofread it (or even get a bit of background on the
training syllabus from someone who's been through it) before going to press.
But apparently it was.
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