Listening to cockpit conversations
Posted on July 21, 2008
Filed Under Blogroll, journalism, networked society |
Meet The Aviatrix. She flies, she blogs, and she has inadvertently done away with an old notion involving bad news and journalism. See, we use to take it for a fact of editorial judgment that thousands of airplanes taking off and landing are not “news” and only those that crash are. But not anymore, that is if you follow Cockpit Conversation and the comments of its loyal readership.
Aviatrix writes her blog anonymously for reasons of her professional live. We know she is female, pilots commercial planes and she is based somewhere in Canada. Week after week she chronicles her workdays in bits that read more like adventures, peppered with personal observations and juicy details about the inner workings of the commercial aviation system–from her quarrels with ground crews to her interactions with other pilots.
Truly addictive material for those of us who, say… regard the airline industry with a mix of awe and horror. May she continue to have safe blogging and, as the late Prof. Bob Stevenson used to say, equal number of take-offs and landings.
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