Originally Posted by
Fly-by-Wife
I posted this almost 2 years ago, so it's possible that some of the links no longer work, but it's still germane:
In the majority of the articles, there is supporting pictorial evidence of the 'solo' expedition with photos which inconveniently show 2 people on board. Now we know this 2nd person to be the ATPL / instructor / owner Ewald Gritsch on board for the majority of those flight.
With such widespread pictorial evidence in the public domain, it would appear to be rather more than a mere 'uphill struggle' to reconcile all those ambitious solo claims to secure sponsorship with the inconvenient facts. What was she thinking, to believe it was wise to come back to berate everyone - the LAA in particular - for such an dreadful miscarriage of justice, and to think that she could rewrite history to claim her prize and restore her honour?