What I find most annoying is that today, like every other day this year hundreds of women have got airborne with thousands of passengers in their care. Flown halfway round the world and landed safely without anybody noticing. These women are called pilots, the fact that they have lumps in their jumpers rather than their pants means nothing. They are PILOTS.
T C-T and all the other self-promoting women of her ilk bring down the achievements of their sex. Amy Johnston did well, Beryl Markham was amazing, Sheila Scott charmed me (as a teenager) into a blushing mess. And we give T C-T an award? FFS!!
A Stearman with a GPS is just a slow flying, highly capable machine, and she needed help? Thats not an achievement, thats inadequacy. As for her p### poor record of busting both her own and other's aircraft, that's just incompetence.
If she has lied then let her take the flak, even if she hasn't she doesn't deserve more than re-training as far as I'm concerned.
SND