[Normy]

Listen folks...you've got to understand that the media just LOVES blowing things up out of nothing. There was little danger imposed on the traveling public by that man allowing his kid to recite what he would normally say over an aviation radio. If there was any confusion, the controller could easily grab the microphone and give instructions immediately. They played the tapes on the nightly news tonight, and I could easily understand the kid.

-The FAA? This is a bunch of brainless inbred losers who couldn't make it at the airlines. Most of them have deviant or at least bizarre personalities, and many of them have an "axe to grind" with those of us who have been successful in aviation. You can bet a bunch of overweight poorly-socialized FAA pencil-pilots are literally drooling over the chance to take this controller's [and his $150,000/year salary...] away from him. Filth-

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