Mortimer Schnerd, RN wrote:
Kev wrote:
On the good side of news reporting, I've often written 1010-WINS news
and corrected them on aviation information... and they fix their
reports!

Btw, I should've mentioned that 1010 is the largest news radio station
in New York City.

So there's hope sometimes.

Sometimes... maybe. I've corrected our local stations on several occasions and
have never gotten any kind of response out of them. Not a thank you; not a
correction. And I always point out that they already have an in-house aviation
expert on staff: their traffic copter pilot. Apparently they'd rather leave
him out of the loop on the off chance that they can embarass themselves yet
again with lame reporting.

A few years back we had a run of news copter accidents. One ditched
in the East River. Another spun into a rooftop in Brooklyn (that one
was caught on tape by a rival news copter... and replayed a thousand
times). This was right after they reamed out a GA pilot for crashing
in the streets. But because it was THEIR pilots, and they were
terrified of getting banned from flying low over city streets, all the
TV stations emphasized how brave their pilots were to have saved the
passengers, etc. Quite a different tune, and they were gentler to GA
crashes for a long time afterward.

Kev