{"id":375,"date":"2011-05-18T05:47:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T10:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flymall.org\/blog\/?p=375"},"modified":"2011-05-18T05:47:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T10:47:59","slug":"aopa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flymall.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/aopa\/","title":{"rendered":"AOPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From ANN Contributor Bob Miller, CFII, ATP &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aero-news.net\/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=62fb4320-cb8b-4b16-824f-d7385ae7fd24&amp;\">My suggestion to our readers is that they follow my example and yank the plug on AOPA.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From ANN &#8211;\u00a0Today (long after the first complaints), ANN received a threatening missive from an AOPA lawyer in an apparent attempt to intimidate us into silence&#8230; and (surprise!!!) less than a day after they were notified (in order to elicit a response) that we were publishing a Guest Editorial from another high-profile member of the aviation community protesting conduct like this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This is NOT the AOPA that ANN once admired, praised and was proud to support&#8230; not by a long shot.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aero-news.net\/index.cfm?contentBlockId=eefaf7fe-c60f-43b0-a97f-5677a5e2a8c0\">Click here for full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From ANN Contributor Bob Miller, CFII, ATP &#8211; My suggestion to our readers is that they follow my example and yank the plug on AOPA. 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