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Will you take the PLEDGE?
The PLEDGE program, launched by the Texas Aviation Association Foundation, aims to reduce the general aviation accident rate. "Although the accident rate for scheduled commercial operations has fallen in the past decade, the rate for GA continues at what TXAA Foundation, Inc. considers unacceptable," according to the organization's monthly newsletter. PLEDGE is an acronym to remind pilots to perform a few simple steps to avoid accidents. (www.txaa.org) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Yet another laborious acronym for RTFB, use the checklist, and don't do something stupid. The quickest way to reduce the accident rate would be to pull the certificates of the DE's with a 99% pass rate. As long as people with money can buy a Cirrus (the modern day v-tail Bonanza), C421 (several of those lately) even VLJ's, and then go find somebody to tell the insurance company they can fly them, The accident rate won't improve. If you are a flight instructor interviewing a new primary student,ask him to lunch and let him drive. If he or she can't drive a car, what are the odds they'll be any better in an airplane! As long as money is the sole propellant in the flight instruction game I, for one will continue to not read the accident reports for non turbine powered GA accidents. They never change, only the participants. Some folks would be better off bowling, and most of us have met one or two of them! I don't want my name in their logbook. Just sayin. Now let the dogs out.
"some people would be better of bowling" Thats all you can say,,everybody knows somebody who should not be in a cockpit. Every good pilot has a shocking story...just more story's to go around I guess.
Since the threads get tangled regularly Nicholas, That's not all I can say. If they were bowling, they wouldn't be running out of fuel, flying into IFR conditions, losing control on a dark night, et.al. res ipsa loquitur. Look it up. jbermo says it all. You can't make up the accident rate. It speaks for itself. And if you click on my profile, you might understand that I am not anti GA. Just anti inept. just sayin!
No argument..no debate... its the real envelope thats getting pushed. Everybody and there Uncle wants to be a pilot. In the military they would never make the cut or if they did, they would wash out.The unfortunate side effect is the FAA COMES IN TO ESTABLISH MORE REGS. It never the solves the problem only exccerbates the healthy side of operations.
How true - you can't regulate yourself out of stupid.
So many people came to this country, fought and died for freedom, and now people keep trading in their freedom for more security. We don't need more rules - more bureaucrats etc etc. What we need is to do our best to weed out those who shouldn't fly- and understand that these accidents are going to happen from time to time - and there isn't a think we can do about it.
Just like the recent shootout in CT. Its horrible, but this thing cant be stopped. If a bad guy wants to kill a lot of people he will find a way to do it. If he can't find legal guns, he will get illegal ones, or bombs, or whatever else he can get his hands on.
And what sucks is that we can't stop it. Everyone will try to - but its already illegal to operate an aircraft contrary to 14 CFR 91.13, and its already illegal to kill kids in first grade in CT.
People just can't come to grips with the fact that NOTHING can be done to stop these things sometimes. And its a really horrible pill to swallow :(
So many people came to this country, fought and died for freedom, and now people keep trading in their freedom for more security. We don't need more rules - more bureaucrats etc etc. What we need is to do our best to weed out those who shouldn't fly- and understand that these accidents are going to happen from time to time - and there isn't a think we can do about it.
Just like the recent shootout in CT. Its horrible, but this thing cant be stopped. If a bad guy wants to kill a lot of people he will find a way to do it. If he can't find legal guns, he will get illegal ones, or bombs, or whatever else he can get his hands on.
And what sucks is that we can't stop it. Everyone will try to - but its already illegal to operate an aircraft contrary to 14 CFR 91.13, and its already illegal to kill kids in first grade in CT.
People just can't come to grips with the fact that NOTHING can be done to stop these things sometimes. And its a really horrible pill to swallow :(
While I hate to sidestep the post..your comment is directly related to the PLEDGE post and the relationship to the cultural horizon line. The PLEDGE is just another example a nation deceiving itself with a sense of safety security.