REFLECTOR: Velocity crash

[Al Gietzen]

I; as I am sure goes for most of us; find myself somewhat speechless
regarding this news.  Most of us knew him personally, and all of us through
the reflector. A sad tragedy.  My heart goes out to his wife and Steve.

 

Al

 

-----Original Message-----
From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Chuck
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 9:53 AM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Velocity crash

 

It was Mack Murphree flying someones plane. He lost power very shortly after
takeoff and radioed that he was going down trying to miss the houses. 

 

 

----- Original Message ----- 

From: NMFlyer1 at aol.com 

To: reflector at tvbf.org 

Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 9:13 AM

Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Velocity crash

 

Doug, 

 

I agree with your angle, but for now (as was proven in California) they can
not limit experimentals per se. 

 

There is always a way to tweak the rules though, and run off those
considered "undesirable". For example, at the Albuquerque international
Sunport (KABQ), they have kicked out many of the small piston GA aircraft.
They have done this by taking back the leases where the hangars were, in
favor of building larger corporate, turbine and jet facilities. They have
also raised gas fees to almost 7 bucks a gallon, and charge a 20 dollar ramp
fee if you shut down the engines on their ramp. 

 

They can not, however (yet), tell experimental aircraft that they can not go
there. It would be a violation of the Grant program that funds the airport.
Yes, I suppose enough smoke can be raised that would cause those in power to
try and accomplish such an act, but luckily the FAA has not put up with that
yet. 

 

I believe that correct and complete information (not inflammatory media
coverage) should be used. For example, there are 57 accidents listed before
this one at the VGT airport. Of those, 4 were experimental (none fatal). 

using the same broad category, 31 of the accidents were Cessnas, with 4
fatal. 

 

Yes I know there is a gross use imbalance here, but for purposes of
illustration, it shows that you really should not single out one unfortunate
accident and expect to "save the world" as the media and politicians try to
do. 

 

Kurt 

 

 






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