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Sad, I suppose...but so are the companies who
sell split rim truck wheels, or for that matter, light twins that won't climb out at full legal gross from Denver to people (with families) they know are not Chuck Yeager. Are we any worse? Yes. You're much worse. I don't know anything about split rim truck wheels, but I know rather a lot about light twins that won't climb out at full legal gross from Denver (which is most of them). I have hundreds of hours in several of them. Do you? The light twin that won't climb out on one engine at full gross from Denver will cheerfully hold altitude 4000 ft above the hills of Arkansas (and 500 ft above a cloud deck) after one engine takes a dump in cruise - and you don't need to be Chuck Yeager to make it do it. In fact, it was doing it while being flown by a very lightly coached student pilot. If I had to have a twin that WOULD climb out from Denver at full gross on one engine, I couldn't afford it and would be flying a single. That would have made my life really interesting when the engine failed 500 ft above a solid cloud deck over the hills of Arkansas. Or, to put it in general terms - you would take away from me the capability to keep flying 95% of the time, in order to what? To keep me from needing to make a decision no to try it the other 5% of the time? When it's obvious from reading the flight manual that it won't work anyway? The company that made this light twin did something very useful - it provided an airplane for me and people like me that would often (but not always) give us options not available in a single engine airplane - and you would fault them for not building the airplane so that it would ALWAYS give those options - at a price and operating cost we can't afford. That's nuts. They produced a valuable product, and it would be a shame if some lawyer shut them down - which, unfortunately, is in large part what happened. Michael |
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