Sylvain,

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.

I can understand pilots clipping the edge of a 'hot' area, or flying through
an area that just became 'hot', and things like that. But buzzing the Santa
Cruz beach (the wheel reportedly nearly hit a young boy), having to evacuted
the DC buildings several times, flying near Pad 39B on launch day... I just
don't get it.

You know what, I think some of these incidents should receive a
disproportionate amount of media - like the ones mentioned above. Some guy
with no radio who has jets 'force' him down and potentially halts a shuttle
countdown should receive its fair share of media - that's a big deal.

It just frustrates me that most of us try hard to do the right thing (e.g.
noise abatement), then others make the news.

Hilton