Hilton wrote:

the Shuttle incident and the DC incidents seem to happen regularly... I'm
not even going to start about planes buzzing beaches and nearly hitting
people (Santa Cruz) and all the other 'bad for GA' stuff that happens. I
think that as a group, we need to take more responsibility for our actions
and I'm not sure if I see that happening.

another way to look at it though, is that there is very few incidents,
albeit all receiving a disproportionate amount of media attention for
the number of pilots overall. Try to think of any other group that does
as well... that said, yeah, we could improve things a bit by educating
ourselves and the journalists (hey, here is an idea, trying to convert
more journalists to flying, a bit like the Young Eagles program :-)

--Sylvain