Feb Flyer Proof reader
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Feb Flyer Proof reader
Has anyone asked for a job as a proof reader for Flyer - I thought 'Linbergh' (front cover) had a 'd' in it, ie 'Lindbergh'!
Sorry, just being picky and think that working for an aviation magazine must be more fun than most jobs. Perhaps I'll write and ask them if there are any vacancies!
Sorry, just being picky and think that working for an aviation magazine must be more fun than most jobs. Perhaps I'll write and ask them if there are any vacancies!
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I had been lying very low hoping nobody would spot that one...
From the same fingers at the keyboard (mea culpa) came 'suggets' on the cover of General Aviation (the AOPA mag) eighteen months or so back. No one spotted it, although I have cutting on the office wall as a reminder.
Working for an aviation magazine, particularly FLYER is indeed a fun job, even if the cock-ups are very public indeed.
From the same fingers at the keyboard (mea culpa) came 'suggets' on the cover of General Aviation (the AOPA mag) eighteen months or so back. No one spotted it, although I have cutting on the office wall as a reminder.
Working for an aviation magazine, particularly FLYER is indeed a fun job, even if the cock-ups are very public indeed.
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Did anybody else see on the contents page, the tiny piece about Brian Lecomber was upsidedown and backward? Either it's a good joke or the printer was having an off day. 
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I do remember inventing the term 'addiction fog' through a false click on the spellchecker for 'advection fog' - I accidentally hit replaces when I thought I'd hit ignore.
With hindsight, whislt admitting the mistake, I decided that the fog which has habitually formed over the airfield (but never at home when you decide to set off to drive there) ought to have a name, and that was as good as any.
Also, all schools were sent a wall poster in mid 2002 from a mag (NOT Flyer) advertising a competition to win an "NNPL"? No names - I was just glad I wasn't involved!
Irv
With hindsight, whislt admitting the mistake, I decided that the fog which has habitually formed over the airfield (but never at home when you decide to set off to drive there) ought to have a name, and that was as good as any.
Also, all schools were sent a wall poster in mid 2002 from a mag (NOT Flyer) advertising a competition to win an "NNPL"? No names - I was just glad I wasn't involved!
Irv
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Pilgrim, proof reading on PPRuNe appears to be like the old music hall expression: "ladies and gentlemen - mainly yourselves!"
I know with the couple of magazines and other printed matter that I've helped compile/edit, almost invariably some cockup, usually in the plural, slips through, and is the first thing you spot when you open the box from the printers...!
Love to work on an AvMag for the day job...
I know with the couple of magazines and other printed matter that I've helped compile/edit, almost invariably some cockup, usually in the plural, slips through, and is the first thing you spot when you open the box from the printers...!
Love to work on an AvMag for the day job...
With hindsight, whislt admitting the mistake, I decided that the fog which has habitually formed over the airfield (but never at home when you decide to set off to drive there) ought to have a name, and that was as good as any.
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Anyone who has been involved in what seems to be a stupidly complex process of putting together a magazine will know thet the capacity for cock up is immense. That the number of problems is so low is a credit to those who work in the mags who put all their effort into tracking down the weak links and sorting them (and I know Philip regards accuracy as vital). Despite this effort problems do crop up. One magazine I am aware of simply can not get the euro sign to travel from the editors screen to the printed page. I a recbt article I wrote de Havilland became De Havilland and back again a number of time as the article was touched by up to tthree different hands each prone to changing the previous persons correction. I think it was correct in the end but I dread opening the mag and finding errors in an article I have written. I take the following two weeks explaining to all I know that I really knew how spell the offending word.
I read all three of the UK GA mags and I have to say bar the odd silly mistake they are all generally excellent for accuracy.
I read all three of the UK GA mags and I have to say bar the odd silly mistake they are all generally excellent for accuracy.
