Over Regulation

[N2124v]

Maybe it is the fact that I am involved in real estate, aviation, and firearms, but man, I am tired of all the silly little nitpicky rules out there. I wonder how many great ideas have never even left the drawing board because of fear the inventor was going to break some law?

Just a rant, I do think we need reasonable regulations, but it has gone way to far. IMHO

What is the biggest wtf regulation that you can think of? Let's keep it to aviation, the IRS is to easy of a target, along with the TSA.

 

[Jim Logajan]

Is there an equivalent to Airworthiness Directives anywhere else in government law or regulations?

As I understand it, ADs are product specific regulations that owners of the product must comply with in order to legally use the product for its intended use.

I know of no such concept like ADs for riding lawnmowers, automobiles, household appliances, ultralights, experimental aircraft, or pretty much anything else.

The FAA's treatment of certificated aircraft appears to be unique. On the one hand they write broad regulations like the "see and avoid" set, and on the other hand write ones specific to certain technologies. Or as in ADs they can literally get down to nuts and bolts.

Maybe if they ever establish a consistent meta-philosophy on how fine-grained their regulation writing should be they, could dig themselves out of the morass that yields so many unintuitive, inconsistent, and sometimes contradictory regulations.

 

[Jim Logajan]

How many other consumer products do you own that are older than you and have the potential to fall out of the sky causing a burning wreck in the middle of someones house (or kill the several hundred commercial passengers onboard)? How many are so complex and limited in production runs and manufacturer's profit? The only one I have is my plane.

Rhetorically loaded questions and erroneous assumptions. Look up the number of experimental aircraft now flying. Then ask those questions of those aircraft and compare the answers you get for type certificated aircraft.

P.S. Good luck fitting several hundred commercial passengers into the average GA airplane.

 

[Jim Logajan]

Your only recourse, as an individual, is to move to a country with less regulation, then hope like hell we don't get our way about regulating everyone and everything on the face of the earth.

If you haven't already, consider reading Robert Heinlein's novel"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" - particularly the short fable of the brass cannon.