From: "Gene Storey"
Date: 9/28/2003 8:14 PM Central Daylight Time
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"Tarver Engineering" wrote
"Gene Storey" wrote
"Tarver Engineering" wrote

The pilot flying keeps his feet on the rudder
pedals when hand-flying the aircraft.

An unsafe practice, for modern airliners.

Do you have a source for this? Seems far fetched, but I don't fly
airlines,

In 1972 FAA instituted an automation of airliners requirment.
Enterpolating
the number of passengers killed in that hand flying age to the number of
revenue flights today, hand flying predicts killing aproximately 5,000
passengers a year. Instead, man in the loop automated systems have turned
in two years of zero killed; for US common carriers since 1997.

Consider, you are more in hazard of dying of natural causes during an
Airliner ride, than you are to die in a crash. The statistics are such
today that a two man cockpit has become a statistical life saver, as a
small
number of Captains expire each year enroute.

So the answer is no, you don't have any source?

You have GOT to be kidding. Tarver has never, IIRC, provided sources or proof
of anything he has ever said.

As an example think of his invented term "pitot port." it took a couple of
years for him to admit he thought a pitot tube without integral static ports is
a "pitot port." All during that time he was asked repeatedly by several people
to provide at least one example of a "pitot port" and he only responded with
insults and vulgarities.
When he was proved wrong by most of us he either turned things around saying
that that was what he had said in the first place or accuses us of being one
of the "archive trolls."

Do a google search on him and he will tell you it is a conspiracy of those
"archive trolls." Better yet do searches using his name in various newsgroups
and you will find he is an expert on cars, government and many other things
too.

His latest pronouncement was that all aircraft were disgned on napkins. When
someone speaks in such absolutes he probably is clueless about the subject.

The question I have is: has anyone in this NG ever dealt with him personally or
ever actually used any of his products?

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired