a mandel what you keep losing sight of in your quest to smooth things over is that ae was truly a worse than mediocre pilot in your words generally i respectfully but definitely disagree with a definitions of earhart as mediocre average at best etc pilot it is based on few selected claims for some reason you are following a popular pov that doesn't match with reality amelia earhart crashed expensive airplanes and finally got permanently lost and died she contributed to the death of another person she has never been found in aviation that surely qualifies as the worst of aviators although some here may cut her some slack since she was an attractive young woman any article about her flight training ought properly focus on the reasons for her inadequate skill set