writes:

Not necessarily that everything is "just right," just that safety
cannot be generated by excessive laws.

Or by any laws, actually. You can pass the laws, but unless you have
an air marshall riding next to every pilot, you cannot force pilots to
obey them.

Safety is actually a matter of attitude, not regulation. Smart pilots
are safe even if the law doesn't require them to be so. Stupid pilots
are unsafe no matter how draconian the law might be.

I think that aviation is often misregulated--that is, underregulated
in some areas and overregulated in others.

I applaud the recent decision to allow commercial pilots over 65.
Indeed, I think that as long as a pilot is in good health and has a
good safety record, he should be able to fly as long as he wants, even
in commercial aviation. There's nothing that happens at 60 or 65 that
suddenly makes a safe pilot unsafe.

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