Originally Posted by
Rotorbee
Perhaps not you, but Robinson. They told you so. It is always hard to admit one made a mistake, much easier to blame somebody else. Especially in a society that is fixated on success and always being the best. At least pilots should be familiar with situations where we mess up and hopefully catch our mistakes before anything happens. That is the idea of the regs we follow ... more or less, but there are many people out there, who never, ever make any mistakes. Therefore if something goes wrong, it must be the fault of somebody else and they find a lawyer that is only too happy to sue for ridiculous amounts of money on the basis of psychical distress because somebody got an outchy on their picky. Therefore companies must protect themselves from anything a stupid person might do, despite common sense. There is this saga that when Dornier certified the 228 in the US, they had to add, that the plane has to be turned in the direction of the runway for takeoff. I truly hope it isn't true, but it sounds like the loop hole a ambulance chaser would love to see.
Well, Robby did eventually give us governors, hydraulic controls, and bladder tanks. Don't know if they admitted that not having these things was a mistake, but its still nice to have the improvements.
Maybe one day Bruno will just decide to make a version of the Cabri with a more "traditional" tail rotor,...just for the hell of it.