mark.bitterlich(at)navy.m
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 Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 2:18 pm Post subject: No Title |
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Ok.
Point taken.
Thanks Richard.
Mark
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From: owner-yak-list-server(at)matronics.com on behalf of Richard Goode
Sent: Wed 4/11/2012 9:53 AM
To: yak-list(at)matronics.com
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Mark, I am sorry to say but you are wrong on this one. IF you were flying your Yak in total isolation in some strange country with no aviation control, then, you might be right, and in those circumstances it would not particularly matter how you fly, or, indeed, if you decided to destroy the aeroplane and kill yourself. However, you don't, and what you do with your aeroplane inevitably affects all of us.
The first simple fact is is that Yaks do not have a great safety record, to an extent because of the way that they are flown; to an extent poor maintenance, but insurance is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain, and if Yaks generally have a poor safety record, then it could be impossible to insure, and in Europe that means impossible to fly - I suspect that would the same in the US.
Again you will be aware of certification and registration issues in Europe, and today there is no long-term solution to fly Yak-50 and 52 in Germany; France; Holland; Belgium, and other countries. These aircraft are not certificated, and the National Authorities do not want to go out of their way to create legal systems for them to be able to fly, although we are hopeful that this can be organised. BUT, if there is an excuse that these planes have a poor safety record, are generally crashing - in whatever part of the world - then that would be used as an excuse not to give them airworthiness paperwork.
The bottom line is that how we fly our aircraft does greatly affect other people.
Richard Goode Aerobatics
Rhodds Farm
Lyonshall
Herefordshire
HR5 3LW
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 1544 340120
Fax: +44 (0) 1544 340129
www.russianaeros.com <http://www.russianaeros.com/>
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