Most of these procedures, like the rules of the air, have their origins in the maritime world. The term 'pleasure craft' is just another description for a 'boat'!

Could be applicable to aircraft (depending on what you get up to in the crew rest). 👍👍😀👌😏

In today's West Australian:

Jandakot plane crash: Pilot walks away after aircraft hits ground on landing

The article was first published under the headline "Pilot escapes death after aircraft collides with ground on landing". :rolleyes:

Every now and then I buy a copy of the West............just to remind myself why I don't subscribe.

I must say that the thread starter has written a Classic piece to describe how our so called " journalists " especially our Top of the Mob "GT" write about things Aviation.
Well written indeed and very funny.:ok::D

Must be Roger Bacon writing about my landings.

A bit subtle for some, megan!

’A little late on the round-out, Hoskins?’

Even Australian Aviation wrote that as the abbreviation. Maybe GT has slipped in undetected as the Editor of AA now?

It has to be said that Australian Aviation ain't what it used to be.

The aircraft in the Qantas MAYDAY incident was described by one TV reporter as having made "an incredibly safe landing."

True, I've been around the industry for a long time and have a very good memory for detail and a lot of AA's articles now have errors that any aviation enthusiast or long-termer would spot straight away. Like the rest of the media, they can't even show a pic of the correct aircraft half the time in their articles. I mean, if they're an AVIATION publication that specialises in Australian industry, it says something if they're writing an article about a 737 and can't even be bothered enough to show a pic of the aeroplane, instead any stock photo of an A380 or worse, a 767, will suffice.

Having said that, I emailed the Qantas Webmaster a few years back because they had a 737 labeled as a 767 on their 'images' section. It took 3-4 emails to explain to the drone at the other end what the difference was between a 737 and a 767.

Several years ago (pre-COVID) an internal document came out in Qantas that clarified to some of their non-operational staff that an A380 was that big aeroplane that had an upper deck going all the way back (so they didn’t confuse it with the still-operational 747s). So even people who actively work in aviation aren’t that cluey sometimes. Maybe those individuals were just there for the macrame classes and yoga sessions in The Street.

It couldn't have been that difficult, surely. Maybe he was secretly delighting in causing outrage amongst the aviation nerds with his bumbling fool act?

Was it ever?