Recent content by Jim_R

Since the advent of ADSB, maybe it wouldn't be as hard to "challenge after the fact" as it was 20 years ago. Probably not likely during a job interview, but if the FAA or an insurance company ever really wanted to dig in, nowadays they probably could.

The story linked in the OP says the plane "erupted into flames". Perhaps that's an exaggeration, but that's still a bit inconsistent with a fuel starvation situation. There might be more to the story. I know it's rare in a gravity-fed Cessna, but maybe the student pilot didn't have the fuel...

You and I came to two different conclusions re: the accident flight track. To me, the slight zig-zags in the last 25 min look more like small (possibly erratic?) oscillations around his direct course rather than effective weather deviations. The rapid altitude excursion at the end is either a...

I didn't say anything about whether that was their only retirement source.

FTFY. Search under just the last name, or last name and first initial.

Not to derail this thread, but THAT sounds like it would have been a cool job!!

Yeah, those NPR guys--always prattling off nothing but lies, lies, lies. Didn't they recently settle for $787 million for spouting lies about someone rather than risk a more substantial loss in court? Oh wait, no, I think that was someone else.

OK: Apparently we're agreed that there should be some government oversight. We may disagree about what part of gov't should do that or how much gov't should do that, but clearly there should be something. The OP was about whether or not there should be user fees to pay for that oversight...

Isn't this akin to asking what the best typewriter is? I have not had a need for a graphing calculator since getting out of school, but I would expect that any modern smartphone would have multiple apps to choose from that could run circles around any standalone calculator. Unless smartphones...

:rolleyes:

Other government agencies--with the exception of the military and NASA--have zero expertise in the operation of rocketry. The military is not in the business of general oversight of private entities, nor would any reasonable person want them to be. NASA is also not primarily a regulatory...

(Spoiler alert: Part of why SpaceX is "doing things right" is due to government regulation.) Okay, so you agree there needs to be some government here. Its funding can pretty much come from general taxes (like income, capital gains, etc.), user fees (fuel taxes, etc.) or from some...

You're...you're really going to compare oversight of someone building a plane in their garage to oversight of flying a metal cylinder filled with a few hundred thousand pounds of high explosives that can fly multiple times the speed of sound and reach anywhere on earth? Really??!?

Yes, I'm talking to you. You claim that individuals should trust their own experience, yet you seem to insist that your experience should override the OP's experience--it's NOT working for him: I'm sorry that you're mad that someone has used an Apple product and had a bad experience with it...

Yes, it is. Like when someone feels compelled to come into a thread explicitly about Android apps to go on and on about how great Apple stuff is for some reason. :rolleyes: