Was that the one that had the caption which said “the Boeing 777 has difficulty maintaining altitude when it has run out of fuel”?
I though that was priceless.
Despite me taking the piss a little earlier I think that he isn’t that bad but he doesn’t know what he doesn’t know. What is obvious to many on this forum because of our background and experience isn’t necessarily obvious to journos or “lay” people, though I have an enormous amount of time for Jeff Watson.
In this day and age where company
PR machines are so well organised and spin well spun (sorry) it is easy to be sucked into regurgitating a lot of what you are fed. In my opinion that is probably his biggest failing.
That said many of us here, myself included, don’t know what we don’t know and what seems obvious to us as aeroplane drivers is sometimes ignorant of the bigger picture, so to a certain extent we are people in glass houses.