Feeding Skeptics

The public seems willing to think GA is up to no good, so we need to talk it out rationally

Recently I was making two lunch-break errands and turned on WBUR, my usual NPR station. I heard that Robin Young would be exploring the world of GA as it related to the young Tampa student pilot’s suicide flight. The guest on the program: Ken Ibold. I stayed in the UPS parking lot (fulfilling NPR’s dream listener profile) until you were finished talking to her about small airports and breathed a little easier.

As a pilot, obviously I am concerned about the future of GA, and after 9/11 felt a little put upon – that GA was paying a price for something it had little to do with. But this recent tragic incident squashed that theory, and I saw a real problem with our future.

You handled Robi...