Icon A5.. another crash Jul 27

[Tantalum]

https://www.themorningsun.com/news/...cle_2ba2ed7e-b0b6-11e9-b21b-9321b1336386.html

...no comment

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

If you cross a river crabbing so you cross the river in a right angle and then you decide to give up crabbing and go downstream, for sure everyone in the boat will feel the acceleration from 0 mph downstream to the rivers speed plus the boat's speed.

When you “give up crabbing” that requires turning and accelerating the boat. Similarly, if you turn a plane in the air as it is flying, no matter which way the air is traveling, that also requires some acceleration.

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

Referencing the editor of (one of) the largest aviation magazine in the world as a point that my views on Icon having an inappropriate marketing strategy are not at all fallacious. What would have been fallacious is if I referenced some random person.. the media often does this, a professor of english will weigh in on military matters

Any time one tries to argue that a certain point is true because some other person said so, that is, from the perspective of a logical argument about that point, an appeal to authority. If one is substituting that and presenting it in response to specific facts or logical reasoning, it does strike me as a fallacy.

People often do this casually in discussions, where they aren’t trying to make some specific point, as a way to sidestep actually debating the facts and reasons and it is often casually accepted that way.

Personally, most discussions I am actually interested enough in to participate in, I don’t find it very interesting to debate different authorities. IMO, better to stick to facts and reason about the subject.

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

I think flying seaplanes is a lot of fun. Part of that is because you are often close to the water, which is more dangerous than cruise flight at altitude. There is a reason that flying seaplanes requires a separate rating. And I agree that Icon’s marketing appears to de-emphasize this.