Flying Illini
Hit me Peter!
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- Mar 9, 2003
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Fortunately the aircraft didn't burst into flames immediately, giving the crew enough time to do their jobs without any fatalities. When is a crewmember worth X dollars? When it's your butt (or company) that they are saving.
Kudos to the crew.
Publishers,
It may not be easy to do, but it is ALL too easy to completely ruin a chance to educate the public and the media properly. If it's too tough for you to handle, then don't volunteer. Why is it that they couldn't get an aviation expert (a REAL one...and being a pilot doesn't make you an expert), maybe one who is well versed in wx issues, to discuss the accident with? Why did it have to be a private pilot who has never experienced anything remotely close to what he was trying to talk about?
The media has a responsibility to report facts and to present the public with very well informed people when they do interviews. Consistently, the media fails to do this. That is a problem. And it is partially due to us pilots. Specifically the ones will very little experience that get a hard-on when the media calls them asking for their "expert" opinion. If you are well versed in what they want to talk about, then go for it, if you happen to be on air and they ask you something that you don't know, don't B.S. it, just decline to offer saying that you don't know enough about the subject to answer it properly. If you just recieved a phone call but you don't know the subject matter very well, decline and if you can, give them the name of someone who knows what they are talking about. But for God's sake, PLEASE don't go on the air with millions of viewers/listeners and spew verbal poo out of your mouth. It does a disservice to us all.
Kudos to the crew.
Publishers,
It may not be easy to do, but it is ALL too easy to completely ruin a chance to educate the public and the media properly. If it's too tough for you to handle, then don't volunteer. Why is it that they couldn't get an aviation expert (a REAL one...and being a pilot doesn't make you an expert), maybe one who is well versed in wx issues, to discuss the accident with? Why did it have to be a private pilot who has never experienced anything remotely close to what he was trying to talk about?
The media has a responsibility to report facts and to present the public with very well informed people when they do interviews. Consistently, the media fails to do this. That is a problem. And it is partially due to us pilots. Specifically the ones will very little experience that get a hard-on when the media calls them asking for their "expert" opinion. If you are well versed in what they want to talk about, then go for it, if you happen to be on air and they ask you something that you don't know, don't B.S. it, just decline to offer saying that you don't know enough about the subject to answer it properly. If you just recieved a phone call but you don't know the subject matter very well, decline and if you can, give them the name of someone who knows what they are talking about. But for God's sake, PLEASE don't go on the air with millions of viewers/listeners and spew verbal poo out of your mouth. It does a disservice to us all.
