You are not capable of "touching a raw nerve" with me. Your insinuation that
you have simply reaffirms my already stated position that these
"discussions" lead to nowhere but escalating intensity.
I have tried every way I know how to disengage from you on this topic Mr.
Pattist. If you desire the last word, and I would believe this might be the
case, simply make that last comment and let's be done with it shall we?
Dudley Henriques


"T o d d P a t t i s t" wrote in message
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"Dudley Henriques" wrote:

After this initial exchange, what always happens on Usenet.....and I mean
without fail.......is that if the respondent again responds, it's a
challenge. It's not an offer to share opinion. It's not in any way
whatsoever someone being "interested in your opinions on this". It's
simply
the beginning of an ever expanding exchange that always ends up with one
side trying to outdo the other side.

We disagree. I see the problems with aviation legal issues
as a problem that can be solved. I'm not interested in
your personal opinion of attorneys or trying to change your
mind on that issue. Besides, that's OT and not suitable for
discussion here. I am interested in how legal liability
affects aviation and what can/should be done to address
those problems.

One thing that has been done is to limit the "liability
tail" for old airplanes with the General Aviation
Revitalization Act (GARA). It basically said you couldn't
sue a general aviation manufacturer for an accident
occurring more than eighteen (18) years after the delivery
of the aircraft to the customer or dealer. It was a good
idea.

I was asking about your position, not because I wanted to
change your mind, or even because I was really interested in
what you thought about attorneys. I asked because I was
genuinely wondering whether you thought attorneys were the
cause of aviation's legal costs, and if so, what you thought
could be done about it.

Perhaps you just wanted to implement the quote from
Shakespeare's King Henry VI, "THE FIRST THING WE DO, LET'S
KILL ALL THE LAWYERS."

While it's clearly different from yours, my personal opinion
is that attorneys are no better, and no worse than other
groups. There are some that are reputable, and some that
will screw you to the wall for a dime. We have to have a
system that controls the bad apples and prevents the
inevitable existence of some from screwing up the entire
aviation industry. The question is how to do that.

Frankly, I've about had it with this type of exchange on Usenet.

Clearly I've touched a raw nerve. It wasn't my intention to
do so.


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return to earth without further attention on the part of the aeronaut.

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