TIGV
Age Quod Agis
- Joined
- Jan 4, 2005
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skyking1976 said:Courkyle; Welcome to the webiste where a lot is said by people who know, or care, very little. TIGV says there was nothing found in the two previous SCRs. We both know he's wrong. But, he seems to be comfortable with a certain amount of ignorance in the matter. That's OK we know better. As a result of the SCR, he now enjoys flying a safer airplane when in icing conditions than before the SCR was conducted. He also seems to be pre-occupied with just making a living in the aircraft. He just doesn't want us to mess with that part of his life. After accruing 7000+ hours of flight time I would think that he would have found a better niche in the aviation world, but he seems stuck, and happy with the MU2. Wish him luck. I do.
Actaully Courkyle wished me DEATH not luck.
The SCR required 8 hour icing training spends about 2/3rds of the time basically advertizing how good the MU-2 is in ice, other than some useful info on prop icing specific to the Mitz this video might as well have been filmed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries PR department.
I won't sit here and try and show the aircraft in any kind of glorious light as a forgiving and easy to fly turbine twin, quite frankly it's exactly the opposite.
In my humble opinion the MU-2, in addition to having some different design elements to a regular aircraft that help add to it's workload, also has a couple of other design quirks that add to the same.
Basically most other flying machines of this complexity are currently being flown in a professionally trained two crew environment, we fly with an autopilot.
The MU-2 is very high workload and very unforgiving if that workload exceeds one's abilities.
The FAA will not ground the MU-2 fleet, to do so would be to admit culpability in every crash that has occured since the last SCR's you speak of, and to make grounding the MU-2 your primary objective is ludicrous and may even detract from the possibility that the political pressure you are bringing to bear could in fact have a more useful outcome.
The best I think we can hope for is a special issuance type rating, I for one am grateful that your efforts may result in mandatory, more professional and standardized training for the Mitz and possibly greater oversite for Mitz operations under FAR 135. In addition this neatly moves responsibility from the FAA to a private entity and is, in my opinion, the only realistic political outcome.
Yep, I'm happy where I am, not much else for aviation out of Kansas City, I've spent over 8 years commuting for this career and I'm done with it, I'll take my decent paycheck and my 15 days off a month and see what may or may not happen down the road.
I thank you for wishing me luck, the same cannot be said for Courkyle, his PM was in incredibly bad taste.
Cheers.