"Aviation used to be all about safety."

Where the hell have you been the last 60 years? Aviation has never been all about safety...there has always been a compromise between safety and cost.

Check out the history of radar, TCAS, etc...it takes blood to force change.

ALPA demanded, to deaf ears, a nationwide radar system years before the TWA/UAL midair over the grand canyon.

Same w/ TCAS--just like radar, we had the TCAS technology many years before it was implemented. It took the midair in San Diego to get politicians to force the FAA.

Same goes for reinforced cockpit doors...I hope you get the idea!

It is no different than automobile safety...Blood causes media hype which gets the public involved which gets the politicians involved...This crap is pretty elementary.

There is a finite amount of cash out there, but infinite safety gadgets that we could have. We have to be smart w/ the resources or we will price ourselves out of business. 1 accident every five years--too many if my family was involved...but pretty damn good record! Safest form of trans!

Miker1369, atleast you have one fan out there...Skygirl. (Skygirl and I have a past...so forgive me for digressing). She is brilliant:

"checks and balances..." Not applicable in this case. That's for branches of government--to prevent abuses of power. Like liberal democrats taking my money in the form of taxes and redistributing wealth to people that have an aversion to work.

"two heads are always better than one." Not much brainstorming of ideas required by two controlleres to see the error...more appropriate: 4 eyes are better than 2!



By the way Skygirl, what a tragedy today in SF...it took alot of digging to discover the nationality of the nutjob...the liberal national media would not report the fact the driver was Afghani. I got curious when they reported the guy was from Freemont. But, I had to search the web to find his nationality. Seems the melting pot thing ain't working out to well in Cali...seems the immigrants just form their own communities. My question is, why did he not go on his rampage in his own community of Freemont? Do you think if a white guy drove his car over the sidewalks of Freemont he would be charged with a hate crime??