What we are complaining about is the deception.
There is certainly nothing wrong with any person flying long distances and then talking to the press about their exploits.
However in the TCT debacle it is the press who have been exploited.
Tim Peake will receive a Honourable Company of Air Pilots Masters medal for his well deserved adventure in space.
By contrast all that TCT has done is sit in the back seat of a well sponsored expensive vintage aircraft with the airline pilot owner up front.
She will get the same medal as Tim Peake.
This topic has nothing to do with misogyny.
It is discussing how so many have been misled, with so little achievement, by so few.
Tracey has refused point blank to answer the allegations on pprune, in the UK Daily Mail and Canada's National Post that she has undertaken all of these so called adventures with airline pilot Ewald Gritsch.
If I may remind you
Mr Gritsch admits he was in the forward cockpit for ‘the majority’ of the flights from Cape Town to Goodwood and Farnborough to Sydney. He said: ‘The situation was that it was not a solo flight.’
Sponsors Boeing and Artemis refused to comment and the BBC said it bought the documentary from production firm Nylon, who also declined to comment.
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And from Tracey herself..
Miss Curtis-Taylor’s website posted: ‘For the avoidance of doubt, I have always been the sole pilot of Spirit of Artemis.
‘In planning the expedition through Africa in 2013 there was an initial hope of a solo flight in the beautiful & original 1942 Boeing Stearman. However, in the early stages of the flight this concept was intentionally and officially dropped.’
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She clearly states..."in the early stages of the flight this concept was intentionally and officially dropped".
Sam Rutherford who was logistics manager for the South Africa trip claims it was because she could not cope with long distance cross country navigation. It is worth pointing out that Africa lacks the big familiar VFR landmarks the UK has such as the M25.
Given her admission it was not a solo flight and with two pilots and ipad/satnav on board the Light Aircraft Association still gave her a navigation award. Today she received an honorary degree from Portsmouth University on the basis she flew alone!
Meanwhile Lachlan Smart is a really inspirational pilot. Just 18 years old he left Australia 20 days ago and having flown across the Pacific solo he has now reached Niagara Falls on his genuine solo voyage around the world.
Australian teen pilot Lachlan Smart is attempting to claim the Guinness world record as the youngest person to fly solo around the world in a single engine aircraft.
On Tuesday afternoon he landed in Niagara Falls, the ninth leg of 24 stops on his round-the-world odyssey.
Teen pilot stops in Niagara Falls on record-setting trip around the world - City & Region - The Buffalo News
If I was the Master of the HCAP in London I would be ordering another medal.
He is planning to route St Johns Canada to UK direct and spend 11 days here.
Time for a bottle of champagne and a HCAP reception?