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 Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 7:02 am Post subject: "Major" vs. "minor" (was: use of toggle switch breakers) |
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What we need is a popular revolt or uprising. A person with
knowledge of how to organize people for civil disobedience. A mutiny
on a grand scale. But positioned so the average Joe on the street
who doesn't know what GA is will be rooting for US.
What do we need? IMPROVED SAFETY. When do we need it? NOW!
The government is allowing AIRLINERS to CRASH because of RED TAPE.
Why? ANTIQUATED ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS.
BUREAUCRATIC RED TAPE that impedes the adoption of SAFER SYSTEMS.
What do we want? MODERN ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS.
What will happen if we don't get what we want? MORE CRASHES, MORE FIRES.
What we need is a Rosa Parks who is NOT WILLING TO GET OFF THE E-BUS!
Something along those lines.
Dave Morris
At 09:23 AM 8/11/2006, you wrote:
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Like many of you on the list, I've had dealings with the
government on aviation matters for over 40 years. I've observed
a trend within the FAA that is mirrored in the industry. Fewer
and fewer individuals of responsibility UNDERSTAND the science
of their craft. Those who do understand have less and less
authority to exercise their skills free of bureaucratic impediments
to progress. I have been a dismayed witness to the decline of both
government's ability to "protect us from ourselves" and industry's
ability to apply simple-ideas in logical ways to enhance the
value of their product.
With respect to the "legal" modification of TC aircraft at any
level, I crafted this piece about 7 years ago prompted by
a thread on some forum . . .
http://www.aeroelectric.com/articles/major.html
In the intervening years, I've observed no situations that
would cause me to modify that article in any way. In fact,
just last week, I finished a series of hat-dances driven
by regulation, policy, and procedures that cost hundreds
of thousands of dollars to do a simple, no-brainer mod
to a TC aircraft . . . for all the stacks of paper generated
and $time$ expended, the "certification" effort proved
nothing we didn't already know and prompted no changes
in materials or design. I.e, added no value.
I've often suggested that if there's a bright star on
the horizon for small, personally owned aircraft, it's in
the basements and garages of folks here on the List and
elsewhere who have taken the initiative to seek divorce
from the institutions and philosophies that are presently
strangling general aviation.
Are we a "force" strong enough to resist the relentless,
incremental pressures for which bureaucracies are so
famous? Don't know. But if one plots present trends out
into the future, it is exceedingly difficult to be optimistic.
Enjoy it while you can my friends.
Bob . . .
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brian
Joined: 02 Jan 2006
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Location: Sacramento, California, USA
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| Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:52 am Post subject: "Major" vs. "minor" (was: use of toggle switch breakers) |
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On Aug 11, 2006, at 10:59 AM, Dave N6030X wrote:
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<N6030X(at)DaveMorris.com>
What we need is a popular revolt or uprising. A person with
knowledge of how to organize people for civil disobedience. A
mutiny on a grand scale. But positioned so the average Joe on the
street who doesn't know what GA is will be rooting for US.
What do we need? IMPROVED SAFETY. When do we need it? NOW!
The government is allowing AIRLINERS to CRASH because of RED TAPE.
Why? ANTIQUATED ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS.
BUREAUCRATIC RED TAPE that impedes the adoption of SAFER SYSTEMS.
What do we want? MODERN ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS.
What will happen if we don't get what we want? MORE CRASHES, MORE
FIRES.
What we need is a Rosa Parks who is NOT WILLING TO GET OFF THE E-BUS!
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I agree. I am right behind you.
And those who participate can expect to lose their licenses somehow.
(They will be 'Hoovered' by the FAA.) And then you can be involved in
the civil disobedience of flying without a ticket, something that is
NOT going to sell well with the public.
Brian Lloyd 361 Catterline Way
brian-yak AT lloyd DOT com Folsom, CA 95630
+1.916.367.2131 (voice) +1.270.912.0788 (fax)
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things . . .
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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