>I don’t see how extra FAA involvement helps anything.

 

I had an epiphany last night.

 

A comment was made here about how if this kind of accident rate were experienced by the flight line of a military wing, heads would roll. 

 

I was thinking about that last night, as well as the informative graphs posted by Jeff, and asked the question: “How do we make heads roll?”  The answer seems to be the FAA.  If someone in the military is derelict in his duty, he can find himself serving jail time.

 

I had forgotten that the FAA has the ability to enforce regulation by certificate suspension, fines, and criminal prosecution for ignoring regulation.  When people become a danger to themselves and people around them, then someone has to step in and stop them.  The FAA has the power to enforce consequences that even the slowest of us understand.

 

I want to see the Lancair pilots to pay more attention to what they are doing.  I still hope we don’t have to involve a government agency to put more scrutiny on a particular brand of experimental aircraft.  The question remains:  How do jolt a particular group of pilots back to the reality of the consequences of negligence and poor choices?

 

By the way….isn’t that a Lancair IV on the last page of the 2007 nall report on AOPA’s site?  Nice photo….

 

http://www.aopa.org/asf/publications/07nall.pdf

 

 

Kevin