Doug Riley
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Would a 50-hour P-51 pilot be allowed to fly the Reno Air race? Would a SENSIBLE 50-hour P-51 pilot do it even if allowed to?
The "let Darwin sort it out" crowd ignore the fact that, when someone "offs" himself in a gyro front of a crowd and media, we each are hurt as well. Gyros already have the reputation in the rest of the aviation world of being "touchy" and prone to flipping out of control without warning. More of that we (the surviving gyro pilots) don't need.
Then there are the design issues. They've already been beaten to death in this thread. Warning people in the Operating Manual about torque roll instead of fixing it is a conscious design decision. Don't get me started...
The "let Darwin sort it out" crowd ignore the fact that, when someone "offs" himself in a gyro front of a crowd and media, we each are hurt as well. Gyros already have the reputation in the rest of the aviation world of being "touchy" and prone to flipping out of control without warning. More of that we (the surviving gyro pilots) don't need.
Then there are the design issues. They've already been beaten to death in this thread. Warning people in the Operating Manual about torque roll instead of fixing it is a conscious design decision. Don't get me started...