Re:Louis Rossmann discusses NY's butchering of right to repair
by jtc331 on Saturday December 31, 2022 @10:20AM
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The 1500 hour rule didn’t improve safety, and, in fact was applied as supposed remedy in response to a pilot-error caused crash in which the pilot had well more than the 1500 hours of flight time.
Re:Louis Rossmann discusses NY's butchering of right to repair
by ceejayoz on Saturday December 31, 2022 @10:52AM
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> The 1500 hour rule didn’t improve safety
That’s hard to assess on an individual level, especially with how rare crashes are today; confidently stating it did nothing is hard to support. On a collective level, the impact of the entire set of regulations on safety is very clear.
> was applied as supposed remedy
No. The post-Buffalo changes included some direct changes like the rules on pilot fatigue. They also included some proactive changes like the 1500 rule.
We don’t have to wait for a crash to make things safer.
The West has largely regulated away airline crashes - the last in the US was in 2009, and it's down 95% in fatalities-per-passenger in the last two decades or so. Stuff like the 1500 hour rule certainly weren't industry initiatives.