The Press - Bless 'em

[cessna l plate]

Fair comment. As a cessna man I am not too aware of the entire piper product range !!!!

The rest of the drivel still stands though!

[Pitts2112]

Originally Posted by cessna l plate

Fair comment! A dog can bite even when you feed it choc drops!!
As a matter of interest, any one see the piece in the Daily Mail today??
Where shall I start? Well, they reported a piper (since when did piper make high wing aircraft that look a lot like a 172?). "The undercarriage was torn off" That's why you can still see it attached to the airframe then!! The pilot said "we're going to crash". As for this particular flight, the pilot would have been an instructor I find this hard to believe.
But the best bit has to be a quote from the passenger, "The plane didn't feel right or sound right immediately after take off" Given that this guys only exposure to aviation before this was as SLF what the hell does he know about a plane sounding right?????
Classic case of poor reporting, and I intend e-mailing the offending journo in the next day or 2.

My guess on this one was it was a simple matter of interviewing the pepole involved who probably called them in the first place, and not doing anything more than taking their word for it (and their pictures). There was no press on the scene the entire day and all the photos seem to be ones the occupants took themselves. Shoddy reporting, yes, but I also question the motivation of the stars of the show.

Pitts2112

[cjhants]

cessna 1:

the rest of the drivel is also wrong. the P1 was a PPL, not an instructor, and known to me.
popham is not licensed, and only has microlight ab initio training, plus one or two specialist instructors, who lurk here and elsewhere. CC was a lovely old thing and will be missed by all who have flown in her.

[cessna l plate]

Hmmm. Looks like I am as guilty as the press for innacurate reporting then. I think I can justify my position purely on the basis of the photo in the mail of the kid with a huge smile on his chops, stood infront of the wreckage. More than any of the words written, that alone is reporting worthy of "The Sport", not the Mail, sensationalist journalism at it's worst!

I began reading the Mail last year as I got upset about what a Mirror hack wrote about the Liverpool Bay crash last year, the bit about ppl's not having any ditching training really stuck in my throat, and I haven't bought that rag since, choosing to read something a little more informed.

Oops, wrong decision then!!!!

[phillpot]

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I know this isn't quite the same thing, but take that twin Seneca (?) pilot who flew some journos into Bournemouth, showing them how easy it is to enter the country without any paper checks. This got onto the local TV. If he did this deliberately (being perhaps a paid up National Front member ) that's pretty bad, but he might not have done so. They might have set him up.

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I know the pilot in question the whole thing was a farse as the reporter was doing his over dubbing about how they hired an aircraft from cherbourg they showed them taxiing in bournemouth with a uk registered a/c, they then quoted how they flew under radar across the channel and then cut to him on finals on rwy26 talking to the tower( hardly a clandestine night mission into a grass field somewhere) finally they cut the interview so it portrayed a completely different slant on what the pilot was trying to say.

If they had reported that they took off and then returned to EGHH, that you report POB when you book out and when you rejoin, that the a/c in question was uk registered and based at EGHH and that if you take off with one POB and land with four, customs are likely to ask you to drop in and the fact that these a/c silly expensive to fly and that you can only seat a couple of people the article would have been far less news worthy. Oh yeh and truthful too!

And one final point they also forgot to mention that the pilot in question was a professional pilot based at Bournemouth and regularly flew both commercial and GA flights from there and was well known to all the ATCOs.