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Old 10th Jun 2006, 08:39
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Quite right. It's all been said here, many, many times- any other comments are just repeating what has been said over and over again.
If the regulatory authorities would come to some sort of concensus and give positive guidelines, should they decide to change current procedures, well, the aviation world is all ears. However, procedures and rules were followed in this case and in the many other cases of US, European, Far East and Australian operators who have followed a flight continuation policy in the past, and still do provided the circumstances are right, as in this case. FAA regulations were not breached. If the FAA, in conjunction with other regulatory authorities wants to change the current rules, it will be done, but that is as long as the FAA recognises it can no longer impose its own rule changes on the rest of the world. The FAA just doesn't carry that much grunt outside the USA anymore, and frankly, with some of its recent deliberations and statements, quite rightly.
Only trouble is, the biggest current hazard in aviation is Jon9dc's feeling of 'what is right'. Somehow we have to get over that!
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