Moggy,

I do normally enjoy ‘Spooks’ but thought this one was just too plausable – maybe because it involved something close to my own heart – i.e. private flying!

It’s all well and good saying ‘chill’, but we all know how gullible the general public can be if they are fed information from a ‘reputable source’ such as the TV.

‘YOU’ know its not true and ‘I’ know its not true, but its the impression it gives the ‘uninformed’ watcher who know very little about the sport.

What about the people who fly from Chiltern Park? I don’t think there are any airfields in this country that do not have any complainers. Put yourself in the place of a complainer at Chiltern Park, you now have added ammo to close down the airfield “Not only is it noisy, but it has the potential to mount a terrorist attack!” Moggy, you and I know this is rubbish – but do the public, and do the planning authorities?

Just look at how the US media jumped upon that kid crashing his Cessna into the Tampa tower block. The media like to make a mountain out of a mole hill and when it comes to aviation they seem to get their knickers in a twist very easily.

On that subject, if this programme had been shown in the USA the AOPA would’ve written to the proigramme manufacturers and demanded that they retract the errorneous information – what have AOPA UK done? Have they got out of bed yet?

On the subject of the firefly – that was just something I read on the web, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was true. Even if the families did know before the footage was shown, was there any need to show it at all? Didn’t it say on the FP forum that the film came from the airshow video? I would hope everyone boycotts the video this year on principal.

I would hope that no photos make it into the magazines either – very distastful. I remember seeing a graphic sequence of pictures of Martin Sargent’s demise in the Spitfire in France in Mrs Avid’s ‘Hello’ magazine! What possible relevance does a warbird accident have to a magazine showing posh birds in frocks?

Avid