ORIGINAL: KW_Counter
Hi,
Someone was talking at the field yesterday that AMA is thinking about requiring all radios be PCM and all planes be equipped with a safety device to take over the plane if it loses radio contact?
Anyone know anything about this?
Thanks,
KW_Counter
There was such BS on DB's pie-in-the-sky day dreams sometime ago. Even though AMA now says about insurance bodily injury liability claims, >>>"• The most common cause of injury is “lost control of aircraft,” usually without any confirmed cause (vague allegations of frequency interference are common)." <<< there were only 4 liability claims filed last year.
IIRC in those discussions, I seem to remember that there were several people that sell those attachments for the car people really looking at the extra $$$ that AMA might divert into their direction. OTOH with AMA being in a what I see as a rather difficult severe operational financial loss picture due to loss of membership, even I, the great pessimist, do not expect that even the AMA EC could be in such mental capacity to shoot themselves not only in both feet but in the 'amid-ship' also.
AMA could in no way change the entire industry and as carwood said that would be a "hard time". I have ONE PCM receiver and probably some 20 others. No way BIG BROTHER!!