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Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 22:03:45 EDT
Subject: Re: Fw: flight
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Great job getting the aircraft back on the deck after having the window blow 
out-- however I am amazed at the rest of the story. Just because it is 
experimental doesn't relieve the pilot from flying an airworthy aircraft (see 
FAR 91.7). Either  you had one hell of a ferry permit (I would like to see a 
copy of it) or you just told the world how you violated several sections of 
the Federal Aviation Regulations. 

The best, and safest,  course of action would have been to have the aircraft 
repaired before further flight. This is required by the regs. This is not the 
first time I have read on this post, of pilot's putting themselves and their 
passengers in harm's way to "get home". I recall a pilot having had his 
airplane hit by lightning this year and suffering rather severe damage to the 
rudder. He simply taped up the damaged pieces and flew home from Texas to 
California. 

A recently departed pilot flew an airplane (with an apparent known fuel 
problem) cross country enroute to California and only got as far as Arizona 
before crashing. Another pilot (also recently dead) flew an airplane that a 
DAR deemed unairworthy only to have it crash shortly after takeoff. 

Its no wonder that our insurance rates are so damned high. With "airmanship" 
like this we will all be "uninsurable" by the end of the year. If you don't 
believe me, then ask your broker why only one major insurance company will 
insure us and why they are having second thoughts after the recent spate of 
accidents.  We are looked at by the insurance companies as a "group" of 
Lancair IVP pilots. If a few of us are determined to risk it all, then you 
are screwing us all. Please, if not for your own sake and the sake of your 
passengers-- then  for the rest of us, don't fly an airplane with a problem 
that renders it "unairworthy". I can't afford it.

Jeff Edwards LIVP 456
ATP, CFI, DPE, Aircraft Accident Investigator

">Our speed leaving Iceland  over the Atlantic was slow, 165 IAS as we had
>duct tape replacing the window and we had a elevator trim problem. So we
>flew low and slow. When the window blew out at 22,000 feet, 
<SNIP>

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