"A.Coleman" wrote in message
m...
Please read this. This is what's killing GA and we ought to do something
about it.


http://www.cdapress.com/articles/200...ews/news04.prt

and this

http://www.news4jax.com/news/4269212/detail.html#



Please take it for what its worth -- a money grab. Even if on your worse
days you have a bone to pick with ATC, recognize that these lawsuit
outcomes
are not truly about the truth or whose at fault; its about who has the
deep
pockets. The ultimate question is: what's the PICs responsibility? These
outcomes blame ATC.

Rightfully so. Note that neither of these suits assign all the blame to ATC,
but the behavior of the controllers in both cases was incompetent enough
that I have no problem with the award of some damages, particularly in the
first case. ATC regularly vectors IFR traffic below the route MEA, using
minimum vectoring altitudes that are not available to pilots. All those
alarms and things are there for a reason -- and the controllers chose to
ignore them. I would go so far as to suggest that the tower controllers
should have been charged with manslaughter.