Not yet, at least. New cars have radars and apply brakes when the car thinks there's a danger of crashing. At some point, somebody probably WILL sue the automaker because it didn't prevent them from driving into something....
Beats me.... pride I guess. It's just stupid. There would be 11 less orphans if he would've done his job.
A friend (acquaintance really) of mine owns a large local appliance store. They have been sued because one of their most experienced installers made a mistake. He hooked up a dishwasher in a customer's condo, but he got the hot and the ground wire backwards and electrocuted himself. Now, I feel as bad for this repairman as anyone, and I was almost on his side at first when I read the article in the paper. But the lawsuit by the family of the repairman claims he was not properly trained. This man had 20 years experience installing major appliances and he could well have been the trainer himself. And not only is the store being sued, but the owner of the Condo and the dishwasher manufacturer are being sued for various crimes including wrongful death.
You’ll still have to lure them into court. You might be stretching the line a bit...What's the time limitation for a slip-and-fall lawsuit? Cause my wife took a nasty fall in a Bass Pro shop in 2012. I might have found a way to buy me a Cirrus!
According to the transcript, he was told, "descend and maintain six thousand." That seems like an instruction to me. I don't know anything about that side of the scope so don't know I'd the controller meant to clear him down and just used the terminology that he uses most often or what. Regardless, even if that was a mistake, not all mistakes result in liability and as you say, the PIC could have said unable, or in an emergency situation just not followed the instruction.
What is the published best glide in that airplane with both engines inop and both props unfeathered?
Assigning or absolving blame seems to be the first thing that most people need to address, rather than solving the problem. My current job is the first place I've worked where finding solutions comes first. It's nice.
Are you hiring? That would be a nice change of pace from where I work, haha...
I recently gained a little more understanding of fuel MISmanagement when I visited a friend that just bought a Cessna 310. Now granted, all of my experience is in a SE Cessna with gravity fed (high) wing tanks or with my Bonanza that has two 40 gallon wing tanks.
I used to fly a Supercub with 4 tanks that was similar. It wasn't fuel infected so there wasn't want return fuel, but the aux tanks weren't plumbed to the engine, they were plumbed to the mains only. So you had to empty the mains first and then run aux pumps to refill the mains from the aux tanks. And same the 310, if you didn't create enough space in the mains before you did the transfer, you would end up just pumping fuel out the vents. Its really a pretty simple concept to plan for. Burn the main down to 1/4 tank, run the pump until it shows 3/4 full, burn down to 1/4 tank again and run the pump until the ball stops going up.
ATC definitely was, but where's the 'at your discretion' part'? I read the transcripts and didn't catch that. At 1559:58 R13 says "seven sierra alpha cleared to tango charlie lima via direct descend and maintain six thousand".
Neither will Murphy or Darwin
