-- in a non-Pro pub:

Patrick Smith of Ask the Pilot, regularly on Salon.
His descriptions are lucid, his opinions are expressed with temperance -- and he probably Hates the same stuff any person now packaged as Spam-in-a-Can assuredly Does (Hate.)

He also has periodic sarcastic broadsides on the cluelessness and incompetence of msm 'reporting' on ... about any air-related incident -- some of that fluff is mind-boggling in the obvious ignorance of the reporter about anything related to flight, to airlines or their crews' jobs/expertise and such.

Maybe someday I'll fly again, but given present corporate and scaredy-cat/misplaced politico meddling ... it may be in a Cartercopter™ (and not a SpamCan with full Overide-the-Pilot-Windows-Vista-Egregious on board.)

(Sheesh.. had that been the Apollo 11 hard-wiring: it would have automatically disengaged the crew pod for a return to Mother, aborting seconds before touchdown ... because the fuel gauge was 'dangerously low' etc. etc.)