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Certainly an unusual design - https://www.flyingmag.com/aircraft/that-time-when-waco-designers-went-a-little-crazy/

I wonder what the effect on traffic would really be. The fees seem fairly small compared to the cost of training and so I imagine the schools would directly pass it on to the students and continue their level of operations. This is also a serious issue in metro Phoenix. For the GA pilot flying...

It has not been my intention in this thread to debate particular moral theories, but rather to explore how different moral positions impact judgements about what sort of aviation laws and regulations should exist. One of the reasons I tend to avoid such discussion on social media is that many...

I love it, a modern day capture.

I suppose I should add a bit of how I would parse this. I would start by asking whether someone else is being aggressed against. If the owner is not aggressing against anyone, I would say leave him alone, even if he is going completely against what anyone else would do or value or think...

This is where I think the examples even if abstract help clarify the issues. That is a very different position than I would take. So it is not at all surprising that we would reach different conclusions about something as derived as aviation regulations. We are starting from rather different...

That is a good question and I would say central to the issue here. And I will note that how to treat such a person is a moral question that one has to address. I think this reflects a struggle with moral relativism, more specifically meta-ethical moral relativism...

Yes, I think so. My own view is that morality is integral to this topic. However, I am always happy to change venues, so to speak, to facilitate discussion. Please see the new thread at https://flyersforum.org/threads/morality-and-rule-systems-in-aviation-laws-and-regulation.3512/

This is a continuation of a sub-thread of https://flyersforum.org/threads/when-is-criminal-law-necessary-for-aviation-safety.3508/page-2#post-11765 I think this is a distinction mentioned here https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/morality-definition/ . I am using the term in its normative sense...

This distinction I am a bit puzzled by. Does a person enforcing laws and regulations make a moral decision when deciding to enforce them? Do people who are choosing to enact a law or regulation making a moral decision? I don’t see anything in the definition of morality that requires it to...

You have to wonder what drug he was on - https://www.gatechecked.com/man-punches-kicks-airplane-after-denied-boarding-bogota-9390

Thanks Jim. I have tried the Simionics for iPad (which can be connected to X-Plane as well as the versions in the SR-20 aircraft for X-Plane. None of them are super accurate unfortunately. You can get a much more accurate simulator from Garmin for the G-1000 on Windows. At this point I am...

For finishing up my CFII training I decided to do it a G1000 equipped SR20. It has been a bit more than I anticipated given most of my instrument experience is in my 6 pack equipped Cardinal with VORs. Right now I am reading the manual to try and get a sense on everything this panel can do...

So it sounds like the idea that there should appropriately be different responses depending on both the severity of the harm or possible harm and its certainty is an idea that agrees with you. If that is correct, I would like to consider a set of related non-aviation examples to help clarify...

Just happened across this neat documentary about Fitch who was controlling the throttles on this flight.

Thanks for noting that as I am mostly interested in that context of what you think and how you evaluate these things. So in a bio study we think of the magnitude or strength of the effect and the certainty of that effect. It is possible to link those to actual studies and compare across studies...

Are you familiar with the concepts of grading certainty of evidence and strength of effects used in biomedical studies? These seem like good answers to legal and procedural questions, but don't directly translate into those terms.

Let's call this example 1. So would you sole or primary reason for not supporting one be that it is unconstitutional? Or are there other issues? Let's call this example 2. So for this example - Would the potential costs of compliance factor into your decision? How strong would the evidence...

Ok here’s an example. The FAA says it believes that the risk of people carrying a firearm on a GA aircraft merits banning the carriage of any firearm on a flight operated under part 91. Certainly there are some small risks here and the FAA says that is enough that they are banning them...

Another alternative would be to simply remove the FAA approval. Then buyers would need to become more aware of what they are purchasing. Perhaps they would even evolve the equivalent of a Consumers Union for airlines and a set of standards they must meet to receive approval. In terms of the...