I would suggest that in this case it might be better if the general public go on thinking that. It will all have blown over by the time the full facts come out so why stoke the anti-aviation fires in the meantime?
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most of the posters on this Private Flying board are professional pilots ie people who have spent thousands of pounds and hundreds of hours achieving the experience and skills required to pilot private aircraft. I think if we see evidence of someone operating or acting outside of the standards which we have trained for we have every right to comment on it. Whilst the full facts of this incident will not come out until the AAIB investigation is published, this man has decided to speak to the media today using a 1940's story book analogy to justify the results of his admission of fuel starvation.
Quite frankly, I don't care if the general public know that some of us find that unacceptable.