While perhaps my thread is late, there will be another incident that makes it relevant... unfortunately.
If any of you hadn't been made aware, UND Aerospace had another accident last week. This time it was a Piper Seminole (a light twin) that happened to land with the landing gear up. While I could care less about the accident happening, I would like to state simply that it is very likely that things may seem insane to someone who is not involved in aviation. People think that putting the gear down would be first on their list of things to do before landing. It is, but very few people have any idea what the workload is like during that phase (or any phase for that matter) of flight. I'll field any questions if people genuinely want to know, and aren't being asinine.
My point however is the blatant racism and general hate for UND Aerospace, that is apparently rampant throughout the community? The Grand Forks Herald wrote an article regarding the story here: (you may need to log in)
http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/138161/The article was decent as far as media goes, but this is still not my point. The comments... dear God, the comments.
http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/comments/id/138161/Many of them have been deleted, but the remnants are still there. I can't believe that so many people are willing to comment on a story written by a professional member of the media and blatantly make racist comments towards our China Airlines students that are studying here, and are so willing to comment against the professional training that is received by our students in general. People HATE the flight school that is attached to this University, and a HUGE out of state AND national source of recognition might I add. I don't know why? Yes some of the aerospace students are jerks, but isn't that true of nearly any sub-culture of people?
So why the hate? In fact... why the blatant and strong hate? Why the open racism?
Its so unfortunate to see such a nice community so misrepresented in a public forum.
Discuss?