Originally Posted by
Air Snoop
The bottom line is that the various authorities know who is doing it and why but very rarely take any action, probably because investigating and taking even one errant PPL to court costs more than the safety benefit likely to be achieved.
Yes, possibly correct, but that would require some sort of cost/benefit analysis to have been carried out. Now with this latest accident, with the finger pointing to a PPL wiping out some £17million plus at the stroke not of a pen, but a joystick , perhaps the regulators might decide to revisit their calculations and add a bit more to the value they have previously used for life. After all is it not that the three priorities in aviation are:
Safety
Safety
Safety
I have not seen, heard or read cost being mentioned anywhere. Naturally I stand to be corrected on this point.