X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from [66.94.81.250] (account marv@lancaironline.net) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro WebUser 5.0c1) with HTTP id 686084 for lml@lancaironline.net; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:57:22 -0400 From: "Marvin Kaye" Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Lancair Accident Statistics To: lml X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro WebUser v5.0c1 Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:57:22 -0400 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Posted for Michael Smith : Dear Listers, Another thought on the FAA seemingly being overbearing. I would always lean policy towards protection and safety over cost, as the consequences of failure are so severe. In the medical arena, (I am a spine surgeon, and all I do is high risk cervical spine procedures), we routinely monitor spinal cord decompression cases with expensive technology, probably wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars, constantly searching for the one time a postoperative quadriplegia (not, in the words of some of my patients, a four wheel drive vehicle) because of the serious ramifications. We routinely use prophylactic antibiotics and postoperative regimens to diminish infections, blood clots, and so on. In 18 years and well over 3000 surgeries, I have never had an infection or paralysis. Will I keep monitoring? You bet. Why? It is the right thing to do in spite of the cost. I can't imagine someone would imply a lesser standard would apply to aviation. Ask the people who went for a ride on those T34's what they would have thought in retrospect about spar AD's. Michael D Smith