QDM:
The message I have been trying to get across is that as the governing body expands so also must their rules, therefore as the rules become more restrictive and in a lot of cases less benificial for aviation generally we lose sight of reality.
The reality of the carrying of external loads is it is not only quite safe but benificial to the public good by doing what airplanes were designed to do...transport things.
I do not want you to get the impression that I am against rules, quite to the contrary however there comes a point when we must examine a lot of the garbage that eminates from our governing body and determine if in fact the rules are benificial or detremental to our industry.
Do you feel that the brightest and best of our brethern end up sitting in these hallowed halls of Government grinding out more and more rules, policies, lesson plans, ideas and restrictive rules???
Or is it possible that like every bureaucracy they end up doing what they are best at, expanding???
Cat Driver:
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The hardest thing about flying is knowing when to say no.