FP makes a fair point and I too have been trying to rein in some of the more fanciful accusations but the fact remains that TCT is guilty of far, far more than mere puffery.
Those of us that are Professional Pilots rightly and jealously guard claims and accolades made within our sphere of interest, especially the historic ones of our recent aviation "ancestors'.
So when some jumped-up, unsubstantiable claim to fame is assiduously marketed by City interests for commercial gain via a well connected PPL who claims to have a CPL and all sorts of other qualifications that never seem to have been used, who claims all sorts of high falutin' membership and insider dealings with the Great and the Good of our industry yet no one knows her, or has rejected her, who has clearly not only deliberately misled the media over several years re her "achievements" but has since then seen to it that she never once corrected the errors her publicity machine originally put about it isn't any wonder that Professional pilots who have a vested interest in being seen as reliable, honest and truthful take exception.
This is not puffery. This is straightforward, unmitigated fraud and deception by failure to correct the original guff her publicity machine first stated.
Everyone who has read the BIAB story was wowed with the notion of this personable, attractive bimbo flogging her way around the world solo because that is what all the hype said. Or rather, that her hype said it in the first place until everyone got the idea, and then went silent when they changed the plan from a solo transworld to a sponsored corporate expedition but never chose to correct anyone, never once as far as I can tell, never once failed to surf on the accolades of the "solo" myth they had instigated and were now perpetuating by remaining wilfully silent every time the fraud was unwittingly passed by the media across the front of their smug dishonest faces.
They ran for two or three years on the myth that everyone else understood that these were solo trips - a myth they had started and nurtured yet never chose to correct from the first take off by which time "solo" was, for them a long forgotten detail that was still assiduously cultivated in the media as so many journalists affadavits have shown.
And then tried to wriggle, weasel and squirm out of the lie with nonsense like getting EG to say people don't understand what they are talking about because there is no engine starter in the front cockpit ( a deeply offensive and disrespectful lie in the face of intelligent pilots) or the utterly risible cavil about "sole" as opposed to "solo"pilot. Or an aircraft rolled into a ball and the report submitted as an "incident" instead of "accident". I don't think she'd recognise the difference between the truth and an outright lie if it bit her hard on her perfumed, manicured, gucci clad arse, although that day is yet to come.
How dare these charlatans seek to bamboozle Professional pilots with this infantile and idiotic claptrap?
Do they really hold us - with our professional knowledge - ignorant of technicalities and in the same level of contempt as idiots that they, their
PR drones and the meeja clearly view the public in general?
The sheer arrogance that these confidence tricksters fling in the face of the industry they so falsely claim to represent is the reason people here are exercised at their dishonesty. Professional pilots guard their Professionalism jealously by the exercise of that honesty and transparency that TCT and her cohorts so manifestly lack, and honesty and trustworthiness that makes Aviation itself the accepted and trusted part of life that it is. These people actively undermine this trust and thus earn our eternal emnity.
You may fool the media, the Daily Fail and elsewhere Tracey, with your peevish 5th form wailings on your website about orchestrated campaigns by nasty people and hilarious and oh so predictable claims of misoginy in this, the least misogynistic industry there is.
The Flying world sees you for what you are, Madam. And always will. How dare you set yourself up as "emulating" Lady heath like this? What an obscenity. What an utter obscenity.
If you value your "reputation", such as it is, you'd get in a Tiger Moth and do the trip again, solo - that is, on your bloody own, with no GPS, no ipad, no mobile phone and especially no Ewald to hold your pink, manicured lily-livered hand. Then we might begin to take notice. After your abject apologies for the last few years of con-tricks.
Pfff! I won't hold my breath.
Please, please, couldn't you get your
PR team to have you take up golf or poker or cucumber growing?
Because you're done in Aviation.