From: "Jon Carlson" <jon@carlsonhome.com>
To: <lancair.list@olsusa.com>
Subject: Re: Fw: flight
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 09:16:04 -0700
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I have a difficult time hearing this kind of language from a "fellow pilot".
I only have one reply.  Who do you think deems an aircraft airworthy before
flight???

I'm not arguing about wether the aircraft is airworthy or not......That's
not my decision....I wasn't flying the dang thing and didn't inspect it to
make a decision.....neither did you.  The PIC determines whether a craft is
airworthy or not.....no one else.  Yours, mine, and everyone elses monetary
risk has nothing to do with it.
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Curtis,

I understand your point about the PIC making the final decision, and I agree
with the fundamental tenet that the PIC has the final authority to make the
decision.

HOWEVER - if you "have a difficult time hearing this from a fellow pilot",
who would you choose to hear it from? Your insurance agent, in the form of
higher (or unavailable) premiums, the FAA in the form of more restrictive
regulations, or your undertaker? If pilots can't discuss the decisions made,
who can? While I agree with your premise that the PIC must make the
decision, I don't agree with your implication that any old decision -
because it's made by a PIC - is therefore the correct one and can't be
criticized. We need to discuss the decisions themselves, sometimes
critically, to help all pilots learn to make better ones.

I have to say my reaction reading the account of the Iceland flight was the
same as Mr. Edwards' - namely, what the ? was that guy thinking taking
off over the north Atlantic without a window, without a trim system, and
parts of the control surfaces held in place with duct tape???

C'mon. If someone can't point out that this was not the wisest of moves,
then what the heck _is_ an available topic of discussion?

-Jon Carlson


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