I was talking to a pilot friend recently about the profilitation of rules.
He has over 9000 hours on one type of helicopter, accident free.
I asked him what changes he would make in the way he flys if someone burnt the CAR's .
He said " none "
Rules and regulations.
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Rules and regulations.
The hardest thing about flying is knowing when to say no
After over a half a century of flying no one ever died because of my decision not to fly.
After over a half a century of flying no one ever died because of my decision not to fly.
I think that Larry The Cable Guy said it best
''Git 'er Done!''
Do your job in the safest possible way and nobody gets hurt. With 9000 hours in one type of chopper, I guess you learn what you have to do to get the job done without bending anything, regardless of the rules.
I think the rules are there as a guideline for the new guys and a reminder for those that have gotten complacent in their flying.
''Git 'er Done!''
Do your job in the safest possible way and nobody gets hurt. With 9000 hours in one type of chopper, I guess you learn what you have to do to get the job done without bending anything, regardless of the rules.
I think the rules are there as a guideline for the new guys and a reminder for those that have gotten complacent in their flying.
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Rules are a guideline for people who do not know any better. However, flying within the rules does not always guarantee your safety, sometimes you need to give yourself an extra wide margin of safety. Conversely, sometimes it's safe to fly beyond the rules, even though it may be illegal.
The problem is that safety is a subjective term. What you and I might consider safe for us, some people might consider downright dangerous.
Rules, however, are objective. You either fly within them, or you fly beyond them. Nice and simple.
It would be nice if everyone was prudent enough to be a good judge of what is safe and what isn't, unfortunately humans are all different, and some are too timid to do what needs to be done in a timely fashion, and others can be overconfident and fly beyond their experience and skill.
The problem is that safety is a subjective term. What you and I might consider safe for us, some people might consider downright dangerous.
Rules, however, are objective. You either fly within them, or you fly beyond them. Nice and simple.
It would be nice if everyone was prudent enough to be a good judge of what is safe and what isn't, unfortunately humans are all different, and some are too timid to do what needs to be done in a timely fashion, and others can be overconfident and fly beyond their experience and skill.
The Canadian Aviation Regulations are incredibly complex and verbose.
I remember a Federal Court judge, who said in his ruling, that the Canadian Aviation Regulations make the Income Tax Act seem like elegant prose (I kid you not).
Transport doesn't know what the regs are. The Tribunal doesn't know what the regs are. Federal Court doesn't know what the regs are.
And I can assure you, that pilots don't know what the regs are, despite the fact that they are responsible for obeying every letter of every sentence of every paragraph of thousands of different regulations, during each and every moment of flight.
This is clearly a farce. The emperor is bare-assed naked, even if no one speaks up.
It gets worse. Regulations change over time. What used to be legal (and presumably safe) is now illegal (and presumably unsafe) and vice versa.
And, cross an invisible line, and the regs change entirely. I'm sure lots of us fly in different countries, do we really know all the regulations of all of those other countries?
Of course not.
Faced with this incredible (and ever-growing) monstrous pile of paperwork
(SMS, anyone?) which has little coupling to reality, what is a poor pilot to do? He's not a lawyer, after all, just a heavy equipment operator.
I have 2 rules, and 1 guideline:
Rule #1) At the end of the day, we don't want anyone in the hospital or the morgue
Rule #2) Don't alter the appearance of the aircraft. Who do you think you are, Burt Rutan?
Guideline #1) Try not to piss anyone off, if you really don't have to.
If you try to obey my 2 rules, and my 1 guideline, you will pretty much stay out of trouble, regardless of where you are or what you are doing.
I remember a Federal Court judge, who said in his ruling, that the Canadian Aviation Regulations make the Income Tax Act seem like elegant prose (I kid you not).
Transport doesn't know what the regs are. The Tribunal doesn't know what the regs are. Federal Court doesn't know what the regs are.
And I can assure you, that pilots don't know what the regs are, despite the fact that they are responsible for obeying every letter of every sentence of every paragraph of thousands of different regulations, during each and every moment of flight.
This is clearly a farce. The emperor is bare-assed naked, even if no one speaks up.
It gets worse. Regulations change over time. What used to be legal (and presumably safe) is now illegal (and presumably unsafe) and vice versa.
And, cross an invisible line, and the regs change entirely. I'm sure lots of us fly in different countries, do we really know all the regulations of all of those other countries?
Of course not.
Faced with this incredible (and ever-growing) monstrous pile of paperwork
(SMS, anyone?) which has little coupling to reality, what is a poor pilot to do? He's not a lawyer, after all, just a heavy equipment operator.
I have 2 rules, and 1 guideline:
Rule #1) At the end of the day, we don't want anyone in the hospital or the morgue
Rule #2) Don't alter the appearance of the aircraft. Who do you think you are, Burt Rutan?
Guideline #1) Try not to piss anyone off, if you really don't have to.
If you try to obey my 2 rules, and my 1 guideline, you will pretty much stay out of trouble, regardless of where you are or what you are doing.
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And in a world with no rules there is no place for timides ones...rsandor wrote:and some are too timid to do what needs to be done in a timely fashion, and others can be overconfident and fly beyond their experience and skill.
The no rules stuff will never works long term.
Now, something in between Canada's CARs and Congo/Zaire lack of regs, I don't know.
