Video: Aviation wasn’t meant to be Disneyland.

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“The problem was simple: after 30 years of marketing the ‘Disneyland’ clean cut appearance of safety, we now had a generation of aviators who could no longer distinguish the appearance of safety from actually having safety, and these people’s conditioned taste for ‘Disneyland’ precluded coverage of actual grass roots events.”

 

Here is the latest video in the “Thought for the Day” video series.

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The story covers an aspect of the m’marketing’ of Experimental Aviation, where certain groups have tried to clean up aviation “Image” . Personal, I have been training people to be better aviators, not just look like AOPA’s idea of the approved image of pilots.

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A story about aviation image:Thought for the Day: “The only guy promoting alcohol, firearms and aviation”

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A funny story that is in the same idea: FMU – The greatest flying club never started.

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