ORCA lower than MEA?

Newps wrote:



Sam Spade wrote:


Some folks like to know independent of the reassuring voice of Mr.
Goodscope that the IFR altitude in use is actually safe. There are
dead pilots that could have benefited greatly had they had that
information.




They are not dead because the MVA/MIA altitude was bad. That has never
happened.

No disgreement here, although MVAs and MIAs have been found in some
cases not to comply with the FAA's own criteria.

In fact, if the MVAs or MIAs were in fatal error, then the pilot would
have no use for that data, would he.

The pilots would not have died had they had some form of MVA awareness
to tell them their position and altitude assignment (or what they
thought was an altitude assignment) placed them below the MVA (or MIA).