Originally Posted by
Appowner
There's been the opinion in GA for years that the FAA is trying to push them out of the skies. I first heard it in the 1960's. The GA manufacturers use to build "trainers". But when the courts started to make them pay for the idiot students who killed themselves, Piper, Cessna, etc quit building planes designated and in some cases designed as trainers.
Once we're fully under the management of the FAA and some idiot manages to kill someone with their toy airplane, the Fat Lady will Sing.
I keep hearing that but the fact is, while extremely rare it happens and we haven't been shut down.
That and the clown (NON AMA member) up in NY that hit a military heli during a TFR and barely got slap on the hand for violating a VIP TFR and hit a manned aircraft while flying BLOS illegally.