Many of the current waivered pilots received their waiver under the old system. That was OK for many of us because at that time (6 years ago) most had come from ducted fans and if I do say so we were pretty well prepared for turbines. But I know some that got there waiver that probably should not have, before you had to have a turbine CD that at least knew what they were signing.

As David mentioned, we are now in this new phase that seems to have happened almost overnight. Most of us knew it would happen, just not so fast. I am speaking of the complete collapse of the ducted fan as a stepping stone. Most of us used to fly them cause they were the greatest thing going, now they are seen as an expensive, messy and needless sidetrack. People want to go straight to turbines.

So unfortunately, a lot of good things that would really increase safety, in a very real way (that those of us that actually fly hundreds of flights a year on turbines, and go to 10 jet rallies a year know).....are getting sidetracked by this silly speed limiter issue. Things like the buddy box, and re-certification...great ideas that will really add to safe operation....because in the end it is all about the pilot.

Right now at a jet rally I bet a random sample would show more than 1/2 of the pilots are still not setting their motors to shut the turbine down on loss of signal....we introduced a feature into the JetCat ECU so that this step COULD NOT be avoided...this is a huge leap in safety (probably reduces the chances of a fire by a factor of 10), and is part of the new rules...again almost no discussion of this, still much ado over a silly little speed sensor we have had for 4 years now.

Sad.