Some very salient points...a little emotive as well.....but thanks Day sleeper.
I would however take issue with one small point, from a business perspective (and I include flight safety as part of this perspective) I disagree with your point about a/c like the caravan not being targetted at piston twins. Certainly if your operation was a Seneca or similar...you are right..there is no comparison, however if your operating 404's..PA31's...or anything else in the 6500Lbs-8000Lbs range which encompasses a fair proportion of air taxi companies across the UK..then the cost benefit is certainly in favour of an aircraft like a caravan.
In the case of airfreight...in plenty of other ICAO countries around the world airfreight in anything other than a transport catagory aircraft has a different set of rules and regulations to comply with, for the very reason that the a/c is not transporting the public. Which is why in many countries the SET was initially certified for non air-transport IFR only.
Thanks once again Daysleeper...anyone one else with thoughts or opinions?
H
