SeanD
Well-Known Member
RIP, the pilot and 2 people in the house were killed. It was an experimental airplane taking off from VGT.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26349140/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26349140/
Are experimental aircraft banned over congested areas? I seem to remember that, but maybe I'm wrong. Personally, I don't any plane that was built in someone's garage should be allowed to fly over homes, but that's just my opinion.
RIP to the victims.
Certified airplanes crash into houses sometimes too - from 150's all the way up to the Kalitta 747 in Bogota that killed the two inhabitants of a house it hit. I am not sure what the problem with this airplane was so I think it a little soon to ground all experimental airplanes, or restrict their use.
That's probably due in no small part to by objection to ever riding in a kit built aircraft. I admit my bias.
I have seen some real nice RV's that have better build quality then Cirrus or Cessna. You should find someone that has built one, get to know them and review the aircraft and see if you would be comfortable enough to take a flight in it. It might change your thoughts.
The highways are a holocaust compared to the injuries and deaths caused by experimental (or any, for that matter) aircraft. Yet we churn out millions of little 16 year old tards with a license, an Eminem album, and a desire to show daddy who's boss. You want to talk about safety and fairness? Lower the drinking age to 18 and raise the driving age to 18 and make it a real test. You're about as likely to get hit by a piece of skylab as you are to get hit by an experimental aircraft.
I agree 100% - but a teenage girl texting her friend while driving down the Interstate isn't going to kill me in the comfort of my own home.
Awesome. More 500 hour CFIs telling 30,000 hour ex-ATPs they're dangerous because they don't have a Riddle dispatcher to tell them how much crosswind they can fly in. Let's just say for the sake of argument that this experimental crashed due to something having to do with it's being an experimental rather than something that would have equally screwed a certified aircraft. Accepting that, which is by no means proven, how many people on the ground are killed every year by sport pilots? How many are killed by 16-18 year old drivers? How many by female drivers? Asians? stingrays? meteor strikes? spontaenous combustion?
I know, let's just outlaw death, that'll freaking work.
Awesome. More 500 hour CFIs telling 30,000 hour ex-ATPs they're dangerous because they don't have a Riddle dispatcher to tell them how much crosswind they can fly in. Let's just say for the sake of argument that this experimental crashed due to something having to do with it's being an experimental rather than something that would have equally screwed a certified aircraft. Accepting that, which is by no means proven, how many people on the ground are killed every year by sport pilots? How many are killed by 16-18 year old drivers? How many by female drivers? Asians? stingrays? meteor strikes? spontaenous combustion?
I know, let's just outlaw death, that'll freaking work.
I have known personally far more people killed in Cessnas than homebuilts. Actually, most everyone I know who has their own plane has a homebuilt. They are in MUCH better shape than the POS at your local flight school. Talk about death traps.
You are aware that each and every step of each and every experimental's building process is documented with photography and inspections by an individual designated and trained to conduct such inspections.
Production aircraft, however, are inspected in samplings. there are random parts pulled off the line and inspected, maybe every 10th part or assembly.
Just a FYI. I'd recommend using www.eaa.org as a reference, so I don't talk too far out of school. They have some great info regarding the building/inspection of experimental aircraft.
Yeah, I'll definitely check out their site. I'd certainly like to learn more about the process.
I agree 100% - but a teenage girl texting her friend while driving down the Interstate isn't going to kill me in the comfort of my own home.
Are experimental aircraft banned over congested areas? I seem to remember that, but maybe I'm wrong. Personally, I don't any plane that was built in someone's garage should be allowed to fly over homes, but that's just my opinion.
RIP to the victims.