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Old 1st Nov 2016, 09:28
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Whirlybird

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One thing Tracey doesn't seem to have realised...

If she had done these flights solo, that might have been something worthy of admiration and an award or two. But she didn't. She says so herself now, whatever she said in the past. And doing flights like that with back-up and someone else in the cockpit is easy, particularly if that person knows about aviation. I could do it. Any one of you with a PPL could do it. It simply isn't worthy of comment, let alone an award. And as for encouraging women into aviation, I suspect that as a female instructor I did far more of that then she did or ever will. No-one gave me an award for that, and I woudn't want one.

If I were Tracey, and I'd done the flights as she had, I'd REFUSE awards. Receiving them would be highly embarrassing. Can't she see that? What sort of pilot accepts accolades for doing ordinary flights?

Tracey, your latest attempt to explain this is only making you appear an utter fool. I suggest you stop and quietly disappear into the background where flights like yours belong.
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