Well, to be honest, I never really like it when an airplane is airworthy. I mean, where would be the fun in that? Really, I think only pansies fly airplanes that are in good working order. Real Men® fly broken, cantankerous contraptions that are bound to fall apart. I'm not satisfied unless I run the most possible risk, especially when I have two generations of an entire family in back. It makes me wet to live on the bleeding edge.
Rar.
Or perhaps, maybe, just maybe, the issues in question have been written up, as appropriate. And deferred as per the MEL.
Perhaps a write up doesn't do any good when you're in IMC and it fails anyway, and perhaps that's my point.
Perhaps pointing fingers at me and asking why I fly un-airworthy airplanes is something that will actually make me want to kick your ass, rather than have a polite conversation about the merits of appropriate backup systems and whether having IFR equipment requirements even for VFR in southeast Alaska might not be a better answer.
I do not trust the Cheltons as a sole-source instrument for navigation, and I don't trust a phone/iPad/handheld as an appropriate backup in a safety-critical application. To get me on board with the "Launch into whatever and fly the boxes" argument, you're going to have to start talking about having IFR-equipped airplanes with some form of EFFECTIVE backup system.
That's my point, and we can either go from there, or you can keep jabbing fingers at me and my fellow pilots. I promise one will be more conducive to conversation than the other.
-Fox
