There's always been a fairly large crevasse between the natural romance of
flight and the reality involved with flight. In most cases, those of us who
remain as pilots for some length of time learn to appreciate the difference
and deal with it.
The press on the other hand, for reasons of their own, in many cases
involving our last moments as pilots, choose to emphasize the romance and
completely neglect the realities.
Dudley Henriques

"Maule Driver" wrote in message
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Sounds like a welcome gift horse to me - but I hear you.

Dudley Henriques wrote:
Personally, I wish the GD media would stay the hell out of our cockpits
and stop using us to sell stories to the public. If some pilot is lucky
enough to get it into that open spot over there without killing himself
and others in the process, he has in effect done his job properly and
that's good enough for the pilots who know him. If he dies trying to get
it in there, that's ALSO good enough for the pilots who knew him and
those who survive him.