Return-Path: Received: from [67.20.112.52] (account rob HELO Logan.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2b2) with ESMTP-TLS id 3192279 for lml@lancaironline.net; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 22:04:26 -0400 Message-ID: <408DBFA8.6080907@Logan.com> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 22:04:24 -0400 From: Rob Logan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lancair Mailing List Subject: Re: [LML] Re: N511WD References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Didn't someone try to suggest a more complete panel yes... everyone has an opinion, and its usually extremely easy to get that opinion.. we can see Wendell acted on some of that "free" advice by what actually flew in N511WD. its also interesting to note that some of the best ideas come from those that don't offer advice freely, but must be asked directly (even though the advice is "free" it might cost more :-) what's more as stake here is: Are YOU willing to pay, via higher insurance rates, for the freedom to EXPERIMENT? this is getting kinda off topic, but I have personal experience with a certified glass PFD in a certified turbocharged 4 seat airplane (getting anti ice equipment) and just today a decision was made to de-certify several AHRS inorder to get aiding code that has been tied up in the certification process. in both these cases, I can personally say our government guns aren't increasing safety, and I'm willing to *pay* for the freedom to do what my research has reveled is the best. but in this case the point is kinda mute as there is only one person who can help anyone when penetrating a TS, and it wasn't in his plan this day. what's even sadder is I'm running out of fingers for friends that took off and never came back.