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Jay Sata's post #163 deserves some attention particularly the article written in the local newspaper from Tracey's home town.
“I started on basic training aircraft but very quickly got into flying vintage stuff,” she told the Herald.She began to earn a living as a flying instructor and by getting involved with aerial photography and mapping and other aspects of commercial flying.
(The flying instructor job was terminated by her employer after a fairly brief sojourn.Getting involved in aerial photography means "I was a sales rep for an aerial mapping company" driving around in a Toyota Corolla...no flying in this job.As for other "aspects of commercial flying" there were none.)
At the same time she joined syndicates with shared ownership of historic aircraft, developing her skills and expertise in this specialist area.
(Tracey did own a share in a little scaled down SE5A homebuilt and flew it a bit until another syndicate member wrote it off.She,briefly,had a share in a Piper Cub and also flew that a little but these are hardly "historic aircraft". I gave her a share in a NA Harvard, NZ1078, and taught her to fly it and she flew it competently but certainly never displayed it or became proficient in aerobatics or did any formation flying.This hardly constitutes "developing her skills and expertise in this specialist area".)
“That way I could have a share in the most exotic aeroplanes that I wouldn’t have access to normally,” she explained.
(There is nothing "exotic" about these aeroplanes let alone being the "most exotic".)
Returning permanently to the UK in 1997, Tracey became the first female pilot to be based at the historic Shuttleworth Collection.
(What Tracey means is that she had her own aeroplane,the Ryan,hangared at Shuttleworth.She was never a Shuttleworth collection pilot, which one could easily believe after reading her bio on her website.)
Economy with the truth is prevalent with most that is written about Tracey and her exploits....I could go on.