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are you sure you don't like my robotic hand holding a rag doused in chloroform idea better than just making sure you are on the same page with your student/passenger?

if you need any sort of evidence to prove to you that a system that can effectively and quickly render the left seat pilot's flight controls useless would be of more harm than good, then i would say whatever part of your brain is responsible for logic is taking a vacation others on here say...

the problem is that you're not accounting for the number of situations where your system results in an incident accidentally, which is almost certainly higher than the random handful which may possibly be changed by such a system

it's not the explosive we are denigrating. it's the idea of providing a mechanism that can disengage flight control surfaces. how many pilots would crash because of an accidental activation versus how many crash because of a death-grip scenario? the answer is obvious

yes you're right. let's load up every flight control with an explosive disconnect just in case any pilot goes rogue. put one on both sides, too, since a commercial student learning from the right could be having a death grip. just in case that system fails, we should also have a little robotic...

yes put explosives on the yoke, what could possibly go wrong? great idea, truly

i'm saying you have to go into driving a car or being a passenger/student in an airplane understanding that you cannot just yank the wheel or controls when you are told or expected not to do so no amount of safeguards is going to stop a person not listening to you telling them to stop

i don't think this sort of problem happens enough to where there is a solution. if you're driving a car, you shouldn't reach over and grab the steering wheel from the driver. it's that simple. "my controls" needs to result in letting go. it's that easy

in my opinion, any mechanism like you're describing is going to be way more likely to cause a crash because of an accidental activation. you're flying along turning base to final and for some reason it turns on and your stick/yoke no longer works

i just really doubt that they landed hard under the instructor's action...to me I think what's most likely is for some reason the student tried taking over on/near touchdown and after the touchdown and then lifting off again, instructor went full power just to try and save it but the student...

to summarize, a sailboat issued a distress call and when the guard's helo responded he....shot it? fascinating

me burning 30 gallons of leaded fuel to get a hamburger at a mediocre cafe is just as pointless as racing an L-39 ban sports cars and Twinkies too. what's the point? how is it a straw man? honest question, why not ban pointless recreational general aviation based on some of the standards I...

SportCruiser seats are not adjustable Student pilot name sort of released, news has a link to a GoFundMe for a 28-year old male https://abc7.com/amp/santa-monica-airport-deadly-plane-crash-deaths-reported/12214135/ Don't know where the rumor of the 15-YO came from or if that GoFundMe is wrong...

so ban all non-commercial GA too. it's largely pointless

why does everybody go from hearing moaning to thinking somebody had a seizure? they were in an out of control airplane with the mic keyed. it's the least surprising detail to me

they are precisely like that. it takes an absolutely tiny amount of back pressure to initiate the "flare" for the landing, maybe 1" of travel at most you fly and land them by barely touching the stick, so you are not really holding it firmly. if a student just suddenly yanks it back, you're...

the registered owner has a bit of a checkered history with the law and a student certificate (at the moment) will wait for more details and confirmation of the certificate but doesn't look great

I picked up a friend at KSMO this weekend and noticed that all of these LSA were blue taped over. Kathryn's Report comment indicates that they were "all grounded by the FAA" but I don't know if there is any legitimacy to that. Anybody else have insight?

I'm not sure what is the difference between the E/R. Maybe others would know. What I do know is that there is a significant difference between the old version and the HE. I used to fly the plane a lot with the old cooler and it was a constant worry about monitoring temps, leveling off, speeding...

did you have the HE cooler? or the old one