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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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