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If all midair collisions were eliminated...
Mxsmanic wrote:
cavelamb writes: Exactly HOW do you think you can prevent ANY midair? Training, standardization, caution, discipline, and other techniques can greatly reduce the incidence of midair collisions. Well, if you have been following the other posts in this thread you'd understand that they already ARE doing just that. -- Richard Lamb http://www.home.earthlink.net/~cavelamb/ "The clock of life is wound but once, and no man has the power to tell just when the hands will stop, at late or early hour... Now is the only time you own. Live, love, toil with a will. Place no faith in time. For the clock may soon be still." |
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If all midair collisions were eliminated...
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brian whatcott wrote: Mxsmanic wrote: Jim Logajan writes: If all GA midair collisions were eliminated, ~99% of GA aircraft fatalities would still happen. If all GA midair collisions were eliminated, 27 people would still be alive, based on your own cited statistics. Is saving lives not a sufficient justification for eliminating midair collisions? Is there are threshold of deaths below which efforts to eliminate midair collisions are not justified? What cost is there in attempting to eliminate midair collisions that offsets the loss of life that they entail? If the US road speed limit were reduced from 70 to 65 mph, perhaps 30,000 lives would be saved annually. Isn't that worthwhile? We have apparently decided NOT. I think you meant "6.5 mph" instead of "65 mph," didn't you? The total accident deaths per year in the US is only around 38,000. Mike Beede |
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If all midair collisions were eliminated...
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Mike Beede wrote: In article , brian whatcott wrote: Mxsmanic wrote: Jim Logajan writes: If all GA midair collisions were eliminated, ~99% of GA aircraft fatalities would still happen. If all GA midair collisions were eliminated, 27 people would still be alive, based on your own cited statistics. Is saving lives not a sufficient justification for eliminating midair collisions? Is there are threshold of deaths below which efforts to eliminate midair collisions are not justified? What cost is there in attempting to eliminate midair collisions that offsets the loss of life that they entail? If the US road speed limit were reduced from 70 to 65 mph, perhaps 30,000 lives would be saved annually. Isn't that worthwhile? We have apparently decided NOT. I think you meant "6.5 mph" instead of "65 mph," didn't you? The total accident deaths per year in the US is only around 38,000. Not to mention that dropping the Federal speed limit to 55 a couple of decades ago didn't reduce the death toll by anything near "perhaps 30,000 lives annually". Those who blow off history, etc etc etc. |
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If all midair collisions were eliminated...
brian whatcott wrote:
What cost is there in attempting to eliminate midair collisions that offsets the loss of life that they entail? If the US road speed limit were reduced from 70 to 65 mph, perhaps 30,000 lives would be saved annually. Isn't that worthwhile? We have apparently decided NOT. Brian W My numbers for road deaths were way high. The allowable speed would need to drop much more to provide these life saves - to perhaps as low as 15 mph?? The time series data is much more encouraging: fatalities per million cap are dropping. One supposes that belts and bags play a role. Depending on the source, the international data is not flattering for US drivers - but then - they have long distances available. Brian W |
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If all midair collisions were eliminated...
"Peter Dohm" wrote We should and do try to perform as safely as is prcatical in our work, our play, and even in our wars. But we most certainly do not need to justify our actions to anyone who chooses to experience only simulaton and then chooses to criticize those who take real action. There are only 2 reasonable courses of action in dealing with such trolls: ignore them or push back HARD! Peter; While I agree, most whole-heartably with your well thought out and written post, I disagree with your last 4 words. Past experience with this particular troll is that he is a somewhat rare species. Not human, if you get my drift. Pushing hard is not effective, up until you push hard enough to make him physically unable to operate a computer. That leaves ONLY ignoring. Everyone read that again. Here, I'll make it easy for you: That leaves only ignoring. It is the only logical and effective solution to this problem. -- Jim in NC |
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If all midair collisions were eliminated...
The total accident deaths per year in the US is only around 38,000.
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If all midair collisions were eliminated...
cavelamb writes:
Well, if you have been following the other posts in this thread you'd understand that they already ARE doing just that. Yes. Who said otherwise? |
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If all midair collisions were eliminated...
Tom De Moor writes:
Then you live not in a technical world. True. I live in the real world. |
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