Trust me we've all been beating oursleves over the head about the low pay... It is what it is. A crystal ball is always nice but mine has been deferred inop.
From my perspective the point is about the 50EX and alternatives to it.
As you can see, once people start losing the argument about the EMB they assault the messenger. Implications that I'm inexperienced or am a sucky pilot, overly biased, "the 'only' person in the world" who says good things about the airplane, etc..
I take that as a sign my contention is valid, otherwise, why stoop to ad hominem attacks?
Of course the old Rio EMB-145 crash where the fuselage broke is also a red herring. The plane crashed due to pilot error yet managed to taxi off the runway with no serious injuries. Even though the airplane was *crashed* and impacted the ground with a force that greatly exceeded design limits, EMB (to their credit) went back and added additional structure to the fuselage to prevent this from happening again.
That said, the moment of the engines on a 145 is much higher than that on the Legacy because the fuselage is so much shorter on the latter. A 135 probably would have stayed intact without the additional support, and all 145s in service today would as well due to a design change.
Again, the Rio plane was *crashed* due to pilot error and it is quite fortunate nobody was killed. That the plane taxiied under its own power off the runway is flat out amazing.
I do not see it as an indictment of the Legacy or its relatives in any way.
