$ully cashing in very quickly

MNFlyGuy said:
More power to him!

Hey the octomom seems to be doing well, might as well have it go to someone that actually accomplished somthing like saving lives!
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yeah, I would rather hear about him and his deals(TV book etc) besides Blago, and the Octo mom that looks like Angelina!:yup:
 
I agree with most everyone on here. Not only did he do something much more notable than most other people getting book deals, it is very interesting how so many experiences he's had seem to have been uniquely beneficial to him in this particular situation (Slumdog Millionaire anyone?). I look forward to reading it!
 
He's making us ALL look a little better.
His media run may just have the effect of netting us all another $50,000 in lifetime earnings...I think like that...
 
Snoopy2 said:
Compensate him appropriately for what?? Doing his job??
There were many factors that prevented loss of life that day.
Sully was one of many factors.
Hope he remembers that as he's cashing in.
Maybe he'll write a poem about it!?!?!? :D

(Btw I'm begging some media person to ask Denny Fitch about Sully and his media tour/book deal.
If anyone has the rocks to knock Sully off his self promotional pedestal it's Denny. ;) )
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I hope you have the chance to excel once in your life or flying career.

But there is more to this than just 'doing his job'. Do you know the man? Have you talked to him? Worked with him and seen his leadership skills? I know Sully and this is not out of character for him. Always a good stick. Good decision making skills. This appears to be just another notch on Sully's resume', another consistency of excellence.

Mind if I ask what excellence you have achieved or be noted for? What have you done that is extraordinary or remarkable? Top of class in flight school? Selected as 'top gun' or something like that??

What I have never understood is why someone enjoys seeing or wants others to FAIL.
 
Who didn't think a book deal was coming?
This was a monumental event.

He has a story to tell and if people want to buy that story, good for him.
 
Orange Anchor said:
I hope you have the chance to excel once in your life or flying career.
But there is more to this than just 'doing his job'. Do you know the man? Have you talked to him? Worked with him and seen his leadership skills? I know Sully and this is not out of character for him. Always a good stick. Good decision making skills. This appears to be just another notch on Sully's resume', another consistency of excellence.
Mind if I ask what excellence you have achieved or be noted for? What have you done that is extraordinary or remarkable? Top of class in flight school? Selected as 'top gun' or something like that??
What I have never understood is why someone enjoys seeing or wants others to FAIL.
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What are you talking about??? I gave Chesney full credit for a job well done with his water landing.
Outstanding job...nothing more and nothing less!!
But because now I rightfully chastise Chesney and refuse to lick his boots or kiss his bum as he becomes a media wh*re I somehow want him to fail??
Fail at what??
Making the best sellers list with his riveting "memoir"?? :rolleyes: Let's face it, if Sully's lucky he'll be able to devote a entire 1/2 chapter of his weighty tome to his 10 minute flight into the annals of the American hype machine. Can't wait!! ha ha ha ha NOT!!
Sully is actually the perfect hero for today's American society, a me me me society of self absorbtion and superficiality. A book of poetry? What?? Are you kidding me?? :laff:
And let's be honest nothing speaks to the integrity and professionalism of pilots more than an appearance on Letterman eh? :D
Oh how I yearn for the American past when men were men and sheep were sheep.
Sad to say that America, where a simple "thank you and now I've got to get back to work" is gone forever.
Sully - $old(out) to the highest bidder in record time.
Sadly American in 2009!!
 
Snoopy2 said:
There is something quite seedy about Sully and his media crave. I think his portrait in the garden
was a really big clue into Chesney's ego issues. Let's see at 3 million for this deal that means Sully
is going to make 1 million per minute he spent in the air that day. ;)
I'm hoping Sully retires. Don't think his head will fit into any cockpit at this point.
Humility my man Sully!! Humility!!

http://blogs.wsj.com/middleseat/200...lands-3-million-book-deal-poems-in-the-works/
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Someone is Jealous!

Did you forget that he went to congress batting for pilots pay and benefits? He isn't using the Hudson Incident stickly for is own benefit... I won't look down on him for taking a book deal worth any amount of money. He's a hero, and I hope he sticks around for a little while longer. He's a better pilot than you and I will ever be.
 
Sully has been a champion for our cause.... demise of the profession. He will use the book to do that as well. Snoopy2 you must be completely out of touch, deluded or you are not a pilot and work for AIRCON, ATA, or ICAO.


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Snoopy2 said:
What are you talking about??? I gave Chesney full credit for a job well done with his water landing.
Outstanding job...nothing more and nothing less!!
But because now I rightfully chastise Chesney and refuse to lick his boots or kiss his bum as he becomes a media wh*re I somehow want him to fail??
Fail at what??
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In an earlier post you said

(Btw I'm begging some media person to ask Denny Fitch about Sully and his media tour/book deal.
If anyone has the rocks to knock Sully off his self promotional pedestal it's Denny
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One might misconstrue this as wanting him to fail. Not so?
Making the best sellers list with his riveting "memoir"?? :rolleyes: Let's face it, if Sully's lucky he'll be able to devote a entire 1/2 chapter of his weighty tome to his 10 minute flight into the annals of the American hype machine. Can't wait!! ha ha ha ha NOT!!
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Seems a bit over the top. "Weighty tome"? It may not be Gann or st. Exupery but someone seems to think it worth the ink. Why do you care unless you are a book critic and find the weighty tome lacking in gravitas.

Sully is actually the perfect hero for today's American society, a me me me society of self absorbtion and superficiality. A book of poetry? What?? Are you kidding me?? :laff:
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Did someone give you a shotgun recently. You seem to be shooting at just about anything that moves Sully, Letterman, media , weighty tome, rightfully chastising Sully, kiss his bum??? Wow...

And let's be honest nothing speaks to the integrity and professionalism of pilots more than an appearance on Letterman eh? :D
Oh how I yearn for the American past when men were men and sheep were sheep. Sad to say that America, where a simple "thank you and now I've got to get back to work" is gone forever.
Sully - $old(out) to the highest bidder in record time.
Sadly American in 2009!!
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I take it all back. You have excelled. Your posts have my vote for the most incoherent harangue I've read in a while and I vote for your posts as SCREED for the day!!

LET"S HEAR IT FOR...SNOOPY2!!

Now excuse me.. I have to get back to work..tote dat barge...lif' dat bale... autographs available later today on ebay... thank YEWWWW!! :nana2:
 
Y'know...come to think of it....Jim Lovell wrote a book about his experiences from Apollo 13. Geez...what a publicity hound. I bet Swigert and Haise hate him.....

extreme sarcasm...
 
Douglas said:
Who didn't think a book deal was coming?
This was a monumental event.

He has a story to tell and if people want to buy that story, good for him.
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:yeahthat:

Pretty much.

People need to stop being jealous of him getting money for doing his job. If the people wanted to hear the F/O story (who I might be meeting soon) then he would write a book too.

(Skiles might be coming to my glider operation over the summer to get his glider license :))
 
firebirdswm said:
Y'know...come to think of it....Jim Lovell wrote a book about his experiences from Apollo 13. Geez...what a publicity hound. I bet Swigert and Haise hate him.....

extreme sarcasm...
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In my opinion neither Sullenberger nor Lovell were heroes. A hero is someone who has the option of making another choice, but makes the "heroic" choice in spite of that. I feel reasonably confident that neither Sully nor Lovell would have chosen to be part of the events that brought them so much attention.

Contrast that with someone like Neil Armstrong who, not knowing what to expect when he was asked, still said yes to Apollo 11. Afterward, he declined all offers that came as result of it. It was 35 years before he authorized a biography. THAT'S humble. That's class!

At least Jim Lovell's story was interesting. Sully's story was over in about the time it took to write this. That said, if Sully can get someone to pay him 3 million for whatever he is going to write, more power to him.
 
skydog said:
Contrast that with someone like Neil Armstrong who, not knowing what to expect when he was asked, still said yes to Apollo 11. Afterward, he declined all offers that came as result of it. It was 35 years before he authorized a biography. THAT'S humble. That's class!.
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In reading recently about the race to the moon and the astronauts, it is not out of character for Armstrong to be such a recluse. He was pretty much a loner during the program..not one to pal around and suck down a few cold ones with the guys.

So, hero no but agreeing to ride the rockets and fly the capsules which they knew were far from highly reliable.. that takes a commitment many would balk at.
 
Let me get this straight; athletes are making millions, for playing a game, Hollywood is making millions to memorize, and repeat some lines in front of a camera, and corporate CEOs are making millions, while they run companies, and people's careers, into the ground, yet a man who saves 155 lives, including his own, doing his job, is somehow egotistical because he is offered a $3M book deal, and goes on TV, with his crew, to tell the story? You have got to be kidding me!

You are right!
Sadly American in 2009!!
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Where true heroes, like Sully, and people truly making a difference in people's lives, are egotistical, and deserving of no reward, while crooked CEOs and doped up, drug addicted athletes, and Hollywood elites make the millions! What ashame this whole world is coming to!
 
Whether or not Sully successfully landing an airbus in a friggin river surrounded by buildings was heroic can be debated till you guys are blue in the face... but the fact that he is using the public interest in the matter to better airline pilots and their future is heroic. And if he gets $3M out of it, I say well played sir, well played.
 
ChrisH said:
Let me get this straight; athletes are making millions, for playing a game, Hollywood is making millions to memorize, and repeat some lines in front of a camera, and corporate CEOs are making millions, while they run companies, and people's careers, into the ground, yet a man who saves 155 lives, including his own, doing his job, is somehow egotistical because he is offered a $3M book deal, and goes on TV, with his crew, to tell the story? You have got to be kidding me!

You are right!

Where true heroes, like Sully, and people truly making a difference in people's lives, are egotistical, and deserving of no reward, while crooked CEOs and doped up, drug addicted athletes, and Hollywood elites make the millions! What ashame this whole world is coming to!
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Did Sully approach the publisher? Or did they approach them. From what I know of the man, it seems likely that the publisher came to him. If the other way around, then I might agree with the OP's opinion.

Athlete's and actors make millions because people collectively pay hundeds of millions to see them play or recite lines. CEO's make millions because that is what their skillset can garner in the marketplace.

Whatever reward Sully is getting is not because of public demand for his his unique skills, but rather because circumstances put his skills on display, and we live in a society that is starved of real heroes. He has done nothing that I wouldn't expect anyother pilot with his experience level to do. But as I said before, if someone is willing to pay him 3 million for whatever, good on him!

I find it interesting that you assume criminal or ethical culpability when a "CEO runs a company and people's careers into the ground." Tell me, do you make a similar assumption when a pilot does the same with his airplane?

When did incompetence or failure become a criminal action, and/or morally void?
 
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