On Sep 19, 5:07 am, Larry Dighera wrote:
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:31:38 -0700, Le Chaud Lapin
wrote in
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Yes, I know, reliability, FAA certification...yada...

As a potential pilot, what instruments would you trust your life, the
lives over those whom you fly, and the lives of your passengers with,
FAA certified or commodity instruments?

Certainly, you can install any instruments you choose in your aircraft
licensed in the Experimental category.

Oh don't get me wrong. I do think that FAA certification is both
necessary and useful. The reason I wrote "yada" is that it seems
that, everytime I propose any kind of improvement to the control
system of an airplane (or car), my colleagues quickly imply that the
existing components cost so much because certification costs are so
high.

I don't believe this.

I think that certification costs are essentially what they are, a
relatively fixed cost compared to the profit that would be generated
based on the improvement.

-Le Chaud Lapin-