Originally Posted by
Bell_ringer
But in the rest of the world..
There may be a few people still with us if there was more accountability.
The FAA get held up as a shiny example of how everyone else should do it, as was demonstrated with Boeing's Max, when they don't do their job people tend to end up dead.
Not 100% sure what you are saying? Are you arguing that FAA isn’t doing their oversight? That they should investigate and possibly intimidate so that people are less likely to land as a precaution?
The current VFR weather minimums are very permissive ( and I’m glad they are ), so if you are arguing that we are too lax about VFR then I would think we would attack the problem by changing the VFR weather minimums, not go after people making precautionary landings.
What I would rather see is a change to certification rules to make IFR helicopter certification easier / less expensive, and to make IFR approaches workable for the way we operate helicopters ( make it easy to set up an approach to an open field for use by helicopters ). Remove the incentive for scud running...
Apologies if I misunderstood the point you were trying to make...