Originally Posted by
misd-agin
"The article is due to appear tomorrow." Well, if you want to do a professional, well researched, opinion or fact based article on this subject you don't have enough time. And IMO random sampling of opinions here isn't enough research to accurately cover the subject.
You need to understand the regulations, talk with enforcement officials, talk with operations officials, flight management, crewmembers, research statistics, and then write your article. "Tomorrow" is too soon.
And a journo not allowing enough time to meet a deadline is akin to your question about fuel. Be it time,fuel,money or luck the answer is the same. Life is full of risks be they calculated or cavalier. Get the sums right or have the cards falling right and life is a doddle. Get things wrong and it is another story. What is the saying about doctors?....at least they can bury their mistakes
