Sober valid thoughts K,
a great deal of merit in what you annunciate.
These types of accidents have been happening since the Wright brothers and defy whatever attempts are made to find a fix. Back when Methuselah was a pup and I was instructing abinitio pilots, when an opportunity presented itself and could be safely done, I'd fly them into cloud and let them experience just how quick spatial disorientation occurs. Guess these days I'd be sitting in a jail cell pondering what heinous crime I'd committed against the MOS, never to instruct again.
But I can't help pondering the cause and effect of Australia's unique tranche of gobbledygook our regulator provides us that increases the cost of operating an aircraft to over double the cost of the same aircraft in the USA.
In the USA gaining an instrument rating is a fairly simple, affordable exercise. Maintaining it is also a straight forward affordable exercise. In this modern IT world almost anyone can afford a computer based flight sim to polish up those skills, my eight year old grandson can fly an ILS better than I can but has never put his hands on a control yoke of an actual aircraft. At an airline I worked for the sim technician could fly the damned thing like it was on rails, yet had never had a flying lesson, self taught skills honed by practice.
In the USA over 80% of private pilots hold an instrument rating. In Australia very few do.
Could it therefore be said that over-regulation stifles participation by making it prohibitively expensive and therefore effectively makes it less safe?
Practice makes perfect.
a great deal of merit in what you annunciate.
These types of accidents have been happening since the Wright brothers and defy whatever attempts are made to find a fix. Back when Methuselah was a pup and I was instructing abinitio pilots, when an opportunity presented itself and could be safely done, I'd fly them into cloud and let them experience just how quick spatial disorientation occurs. Guess these days I'd be sitting in a jail cell pondering what heinous crime I'd committed against the MOS, never to instruct again.
But I can't help pondering the cause and effect of Australia's unique tranche of gobbledygook our regulator provides us that increases the cost of operating an aircraft to over double the cost of the same aircraft in the USA.
In the USA gaining an instrument rating is a fairly simple, affordable exercise. Maintaining it is also a straight forward affordable exercise. In this modern IT world almost anyone can afford a computer based flight sim to polish up those skills, my eight year old grandson can fly an ILS better than I can but has never put his hands on a control yoke of an actual aircraft. At an airline I worked for the sim technician could fly the damned thing like it was on rails, yet had never had a flying lesson, self taught skills honed by practice.
In the USA over 80% of private pilots hold an instrument rating. In Australia very few do.
Could it therefore be said that over-regulation stifles participation by making it prohibitively expensive and therefore effectively makes it less safe?
Practice makes perfect.