Thank you for the reply, and for taking the time to engage with our forum members.
I can certainly believe that errors can come about through the producers jabbering away in the presenter's ears, and absolutely take that on-board, but it was quite apparent that Andi Peters didn't know what he was looking at and had to seek clarification from Phil O'Dell. As I said, if you show one of the experts on the Stargazing programme a photo of a constellation or planet etc, they know immediately what they're looking at and don't need to rely on the producer to feed them the bare essentials. He might be enthusiastic about airliners or flight in general, but enthusiasm alone needs to be matched with competence and composure IMO. I go back to the same point - a geography teacher bumbling his way through coastal landforms will not educate a class in the same way as someone that knows exactly what they're looking at.
Ultimately though, regardless of errors, it was the tone that was well off the mark. I can sum it up with two examples for you. On the BBC2 Series "Stargazing Live", they had the last man to walk on the Moon, Gene Cernon, on as a guest once. Brian Cox's awe and respect for the man he was speaking to came across effortlessly, and he could have asked him intelligent questions (on behalf of himself, as well as the viewer) for the entire duration of the show. You could see and hear his enthusiasm. Conversely, when presented with a Rolls Royce test pilot that has enjoyed a long and varied career flying everything from fast jets in the military to displaying Spitfires and the Vulcan at airshows, Andi Peters opted to sing a Kenny Loggins song from a 35 year old film at him, and ask if he thought he was Tom Cruise.. It was demeaning to both the guest, and the audience.
There must be better people available for the job than Peters and Snow? They had no chemistry, and the tone of the show was borderline patronising. Rather than a celebration of "a great British hobby", it felt like taking the pee out of it. Airshow commentator Ben Dunnell is an excellent communicator and would be good as a presenter/expert for future series, and as well as James May that I mentioned before, I know that Ted Kravitz from the Sky F1 team (and formerly of the BBC F1) is an aviation enthusiast. He would be a much better starting point to build around IMO. Even ex-UKAR forum member Dan O'Hagan might be worth looking into - as a sports journalist/broadcaster, he's very comfortable in front of camera and has a solid knowledge of aviation.
On the subject of BBC 4, its in their remit:
With regards to a "like" or "thank you" button - that would need to be a function of the forum software we use, and the version we are currently running doesn't have such a feature built-in as far as I can recall. My fear with it is always that it would likely reduce participation even further though - it's much less effort to click "like" than it is to type a reply and engage in a written conversation.