You and I know that we are never going to get anywhere with this... sitting on two different hilltops and neither going down into the valley!
I really do not understand where you get the baggage though. There is a whole industry out there and I do try and get a good cross section of it. Although that is often thwarted by some sections not talking ... and its not just the UK MD community. Lack of of contact leads to lack of understanding and that will lead to incorrect perceptions. I was trained to talk [aka interrogate] but the 'Right of Silence' leads to the making of assessments and I guess that is where your gripe lies. Just plain reporting would never lead to this!
Eurocopter, Agusta and Bell have the lions share of the new aircraft market and pump out interesting material in a similar order so I would expect to feature them far more than Enstrom, MD, Brantly etc at any one time. And that is roughly what happens until something else pops up from one of the smaller operations [and I include fixed wing in there - emergency services is largely dominated by rotary] and temporarily steals the limelight. Like the Dutch situation and the groundings.
Sometimes I miss a 'nasty' about Eurocopter, the recent triple grounding of the Met's venerable AS355Ns is a case in point. Having missed it in July it then becomes a balance whether its of interest that the Met had sheer bad luck in making metal in three gearboxes in a month two months ago... probably not but I have it filed. Anyway EC are not the be-all and end all, it would be more important if it was the AS350 because it is a by far more important helicopter type in emergency service.
Overall I might see and interpret the news to the point of EDITING whether I use it but I do not actually create the opportunities. I try to limit myself under 30 pages in a month but I guess that will breach one day.
Bias?
Yes, everyone has bias - and this very thread is probably exhibiting our own personal lines of fire.
None of this explains an inability by some to talk and then for them to complain that the 'Right to silence' has resulted in a misinterpretation.
Funny in the main the complaints come from UK MD operators. An important, silent, but so tiny emergency services group. Perhaps that says something.
I think the typing is a bit more precise this time... maybe not!
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