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You'll have to break up the FAA first. The certification costs are ungodly, rigid, and the certification process created fascistic interweaving of industry wi
by beaglesss 2y ago
You'll have to break up the FAA first. The certification costs are ungodly, rigid, and the certification process created fascistic interweaving of industry with government.
To break the monopoly, counterintuitively, we have to deregulate Boeing.
- lagadu 2y agoAirbus seems to be doing just fine, including their final assembly lines in the US.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> You'll have to break up the FAA first. The certification costs are ungodly, rigid, and the certification process created fascistic interweaving of industry with government Why do you need to break up the FAA to simplify certification?
- beaglesss 2y agoThe golden age of flight had not only competition of manufacture, but competition from consumers and purchasers on risk appetite. It could not emerge under an FAA as we know it. To come anywhere near that you'd need to break up the FAA, as it has a virtual monopoly on violence in enforcing the CFRs here. Let people pick which, if any enforcer they want certifying their airplanes. That is, the FAA suffers from the same lack of competition as Boeing.
- nullindividual 2y agoThe golden age of flight splattered the blood of professionals and innocents alike to write those regulations. Flight is not for cowboys.
- beaglesss 2y agoYou can't count all the dead from flight being held back FAA. It's similar with housing regulations -- the code inspector sees dead in a house but not the 10 homeless people he killed by making housing less accessible.
- BlarfMcFlarf 2y agoHow would insufficient ability to make more dangerous planes kill anyone? By what mechanism? Who, for example? What are you even talking about?
- beaglesss 2y agoOne example is FAA balking at certifying evtols for years after they started to emerge. They're dangerous but could allow more accessible rescue options for people already in a dangerous survival situation, or need a fast ride to a hospital.
- milutinovici 2y agoInvisible hand of the market would catch passengers mid air
- vkou 2y agoThe golden age of flight had ~100x the fatal accident rate that we do today. No thanks.
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- nottorp 2y agoThe FAA broke itself up already. They allowed Boeing to self certify.
- beaglesss 2y agoSeems Boeing effectively became part of the FAA. I've produced and designed experimental aircraft. The FAA made it clear they would not certify it, simply wasn't legal since it wasn't contemplated under any certifiable title in the CFRs other than experimental.