Negative GA on Diane Rehms Show

Andrew Sarangan wrote:
Here is a copy of my email to Diane Rehms in response to comments she
made about GA last week on her news show. I have not received a reply
as of yet.

Good for you. I wrote Sen. Schumer (NY) about his misconceptions, and
his attempts at scaring the voters.

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! For example, when that pilot crashed with his family in a
city street a few years back, 1010 was reporting that the "large
gyroscope that keeps the plane upright" might've failed. I gently
trained them on the fact that the "gyro" that the NTSB was talking
about, was a small instrument. To my surprise, they quickly corrected
their story and replied to me with an apology that their "local
aviation expert was out of town".

So there's hope sometimes.

Kev