With the LAA on their way to rescinding TCT's 'navigation award' at their AGM it appears all is not well at The HCAP HQ in London.
Opinion is split with a core of key players determined to give her a Masters Medal even if she is splashed over tabloids for the next month with allegations of having a bloke in her biplane while 'emulating' Lady Mary Heath and Amy Johnson.
Journalist Dave Jarvis,who exposed her flying shenanigans in the Daily Mail,is busy working on some more page leads which currently focus on her having the LAA award rescinded and that organisation extricating itself from TCT and her
PR machine.
The LAA AGM will most probably see her stripped of the award four days before the Honourable Company of Air Pilots give her a Masters Medal alongside spaceman Tim Peake.
At the centre of all this is current Master Peter Benn who will have to give her the award, in front of a disapproving audience, having played no part in the circus.
The role of Master of HCAP is normally a ceremonial one similar to that of mayor.
This year has been unlucky for the incumbent.
His annus horribilis has been Curtis Taylor and her Masters Medal.
I hear HCAP Australia were berated for raising concerns over this award, in a most disparaging manner.
Not surprising when you consider they have an 18 year old Queensland youngster who recently became the youngest solo pilot to fly around the world overlooked by someone who lied to the press about solo flying from the UK to Sydney.
I hear the Master now sees it as a matter over which he would resign rather than face the fact that the HCAP court have, in more than one meeting, decided not to back down.
Despite all the publicity there is little chance of common sense raising its head in this.
