"Gig 601XL Builder" wr.giacona@coxDOTnet wrote in message
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What's your take on all this "Ground the MU-2" crap coming out of the
Colorado congress criters?

It is being driven by a lawyer in Texas that has sued Mitsubishi numerous
times in the past. He got the family of someone killed in one of the CO
crashes to get the CO congressmen to write the letters to the FAA. All this
is setting up for a lawsuit. This also puts the FAA in a difficult
position. The airplane has been flying 38yrs, made millions of flights,
meets the certification requirements and doesn't have the worst accident
record in its class, however the FAA obviously cannot ignore Congress. I
predict that the end result will be a type rating requirement on the MU-2
which is something that Mitsubishi has been pushing for a long time.
Basically every pilot would be required to take an ATP flight test in the
airplane before being allowed to be PIC just like a jet. I don't have the
data, but apparantly there is a huge difference in accident rates between
those who have regular recurrent simiulator training and those who do not.

Mike
MU-2