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nonameisgood
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FAA Cracks Down on LSA Manufacturers
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wrote 45 weeks 5 days ago
You trust them until you can't trust them. Maybe the ASTM committee needs to examine how the self-certification process works. I am on several ASTM committees (for other industries), and the thing that is clear to me is that they operate to perpetuate the industry's practices, so optimize nor evolve them. The users of these standards are creating and maintaining them. We, as consumers and pilots and individuals with broad experience and education, need to be involved in the standards-making process.
A regulator knows how to fall back to regulation and inspection, not because it is the best way to achieve quality and economy, but because it is a last line of defense to prevent these manufacturers from lying and building a dangerous product, while representing that it is safe.
In most other industries which use ASTM or other consensus standards, the regulator still watches the process and steps in when a manufacturer isn't doing the right things, and some even still do 100% inspections, just in case. Quality is best achieved through good process control, but is never harmed by having a thorough inspection.
Rotax 912 iS Achieves ASTM Approval
from nonameisgood
wrote 42 weeks 5 days ago
ASTM does not approve things, it only publishes standards developed by its volunteers. Someone else would have to certify that a product complies with the standard, such as the manufacturer.
Pilot Arrested, Charged for Doing Nothing
from nonameisgood
wrote 18 weeks 3 hours ago
The law is the law. There was no law, rule, or regulation broken, and so no one should have taken any action at any time. If there was a mistake, then those responsible should have made it right and taken responsibility as soon as it was recognized. This case needs to broadcast far and wide. The officers involved need to be called to explain their actions and take whatever punishment the state law enforcement commission or court decides.
We allow way too much latitude and forgiveness for misdeeds by our public servants. This was not a simple case of someone making a harmless mistake. The actions taken after the initial unlawful demand and detainment shows that there was malicious intent. We would be better off with no law enforcement than with officers who act in this manner.
Should Pilots Fear the Police?
from nonameisgood
wrote 17 weeks 4 days ago
The public has made the police paranoid to some extent, and the opposite is also true. There are a great many times when law enforcement should say "yeah, ok, nothing to see", but they are instead compelled to act for one reason or another. There is nothing that justifies the actions in this case. Nothing except a call from the security at the facility in question, and then it was a gross overreaction.
Much of the problem is that they get blamed when they don't act, and then they get blamed when they do act.
A recent example: I was visiting a police dispatch office last fall when a call came in reporting a man walking through an apartment complex parking lot "with a rifle" on a Sunday night. This is completely legal in this place, as the state permits openly carried long guns. The guy was doing nothing illegal, and could very well have been coming home from hunting or from a competition (which are held here on Sunday nights some weeks.) But, the PD dispatched several officers to investigate. There was not reason to do this except to intervene in a legal activity and try to figure out if there was something amiss. It was a boondoggle that wasted manpower for no reason. When I asked why they would dispatch such a call, I was told that it was suspicious. When I challenged that notion, since it was completely legal and the guy wasn't doing any thing suspicious, I was told that no one should be doing that. I recognized the problem: people who do not know the law are enforcing what they THINK is, or should be, the law.
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