Originally Posted by
PowderFinger
Basically what I am trying to say is that the FAA doesn't sit around trying to figure out how to make things safer ... They enforce the rules until something happens to require a new rule or modification of the old rule. Reactive.
I would agree, the whole process reacts to the changing technology and needs of the public. Name something which doesn’t and I expect such.
I once owned an airplane with a WWII B26 crew member. He showed me a picture of him sitting in a ditch with his airplane on fire and exploding in the background, a terrified 19 year old. I asked what happened?
His reply was, “We had an engine failure on takeoff.”
My next question was, “Won’t it fly on one?”
He said this, “Two engines wasn’t for reliability it was to put more weight into the air, i.e. bombs. The airplane would barely fly at max load.”
There was no two engine safe T/O profile.
He made it back alive and died an old man with a wonderful family.