Flying a local reporter?

[Flying Pig]

We have a local reporter that is going to be doing a story on CAP.  I would like to arrange getting her up in the bird to show her how an ELT search works and our equipment.  Has anyone done this?

[DC]

There have been numerous instances of reporters flying with CAP, there is a clip from when a CNN reporter was taken up

http://www.capchannel.com/video

And I believe that one was flown at one point during the Fossett search...

Hunter Ellis was flown for an episode of Tactical to Practical too, so I'm sure with the right approvals it can be done...

[PHall]

Get with your Legal Officer and see what kind of releases and etc needs to be done.

[SJFedor]

Coordinate with your Wing, who eventually needs to coordinate with the NOC for funding/approval of the flight. Any non-CAP people on board need to execute a CAPF 9 prior to the flight.

Hope you didn't promise it next week, cuz this stuff takes a bit of time.

[Eclipse]

Get with your Legal Officer and see what kind of releases and etc needs to be done.

Assuming your unit PAO is arranging it, don't forget to include your Group & Wing PA folks - they may have an opinion.

[Shotgun]

My squadron just did this last month.

It was pretty simple, we needed to get approval from NOC.

Basically we needed the reporters boss (editor, producer, etc) to send in a request for a media ride.
to NOC.

Our request was approved in less than 24 hours.

The reporter we took up wrote several stories:
A first person perspective on her first flight in a small plane
A background story on our squadron
And a front page announcement on our involvement in our airports Fly-In / Open house.

Here is a link to the articles that have been published:
http://www.dctribune.com/articles/2008/05/01/front/00news03.txt
http://www.dctribune.com/articles/2008/05/07/front/00news03.txt

Background article on our squadron should be up any time.

[bosshawk]

Rob: I think that the other replies have pretty much covered what you need to do.  Start with the Gp 6 CC and PAO, then go to Wing PAO.  Those should cover it.  Not usually a big deal.