Can no-one else see the lack of logic in banning a peice of software just
because it could be used possibly to fly in cloud? Is the thinking that
just because an artificial horizon is fitted to a glider then that glider
will fly in cloud?
Despite cloud flying being legal in the UK I never have deliberately flown
in cloud and never ever intended to do so. I had an artificial horizon
fitted because I wave fly, and the UK for those that do not know can be a
cloudy place and in wave conditions it is possible to get caught out above
cloud that has formed beneath you, that is why I had the AH. Never had to
use it.
What is amazing to me is that people fight tooth and nail for the right to
carry a gun in the US and the argument is that just because you carry it
does not mean that you have to use it. Hundreds of people die because of
it.
If you have a rule that cloud flying is forbidden then all that is
necessary is that people obey that rule and if they do not they are
penalised?
The are many pilots in the UK who happily cloud fly with just a turn and
slip indicator, and do it very sucessfully. Turn and slip indicators are
fitted to most gliders in the UK. Is this instrument banned in the US? If
it is not then why not, it is definitely an instrument that can easily be
used to fly in cloud but again just because you have it does not mean you
have to fly in cloud.