At 11:17 AM 23/08/2012, you wrote:
What a good story (and I am sure that its true). What are we to do
about this dreadful disease...government funded ineptitude
(cowardice? irrelevance?) and sheer stupidity. I see so much of it,
and an increasing amount of it, as I move between the UK, New
Zealand and Australia. We in aviation (and sailing in my case) are
particularily vulnerable. At 66, I tend to think that it wont affect
me for much longer, but then perhaps we should encourage civil
disobedience if only to publicise the cause. When returning from my
circumnavigation I was often asked whether I saw any pirates. My
reply was on the lines of.."Yes, and they all wore government
uniforms". That was in 1991. Its worse now.
Strangely, the cleverness of modern technology often seems to make
the stupidities more effective, as in the case in point.
Thanks for that, Gavin. In general they are known as "The Badge
Gang". The gang colours are generally blue or black and they
specialise in extortion and protection racketeering. The protection
is from threats that range from non existent to extremely unlikely
and they aren't very good at that anyway.
Yes I know Michael Coates and I'm sure it is true.
The problem is the very existence of laws on certification of
recreational and private aircraft. We have lots of experience
operating such things, including gliders and the risk to innocent
third parties has been shown to be miniscule and largely caused by
stupidity on the part of the operator rather than any shortcomings in
the equipment. Innocent third parties are put at far greater risk
whenever somebody gets in a car. There are laws and legal remedies
already in existence if the product is defective anyway.
Just look at the situation with recreational aviation in Australia.
It makes a regurgitated dog's breakfast look good. Ten different
organisations with many different legal "requirements"and varying
degrees of the regulator's involvement overseen by a unit in the
regulator which seems to be largely interested in covering up for the
shortcomings of the recreational aviation organisations all of which
provide plenty of evidence for the corrupting influencer of power
over other people.
Then you have the SAAA (homebuilts) congratulating themselves about
winding the clock back partly to the old amateur built regs. They are
a bunch of complete morons and serfs. We have the situation where it
is OK for someone who doesn't know what he is doing to build an
aircraft in his garage and later sell it but you can't (legally) hire
someone like a LAME to build one for you. Talk about the triumph of
process over results! These aircraft designs are not required to be
justified to any airworthiness standard but pretty much everyone
designs to meet FAR 23 structural standards anyway. No problem with
having engineering standards but I'm surprised that there are any
small aircraft being produced. It is hard to make a business case
when you have no idea when some government dipshit is going to sign
on the bottom line so you can sell your product and meanwhile you are
wearing the cost (and risk) of the capital sunk.
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