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Tim Ward ⭐πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ”Ά #FBPE

@kentindell @nuthatch @danluu "if it goes wrong then people can be injured or die"

Only if you try hard to make it that bad. The aircraft I've flown, all the computers can fail, all the screens can go blank, and I'd still be able to land the thing safely. There's no obvious reason why cars should be any worse.

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Ken Tindell

@TimWardCam @nuthatch @danluu And I bet if your pre-flight checks fail you don’t take off.

Tim Ward ⭐πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ”Ά #FBPE

@kentindell @nuthatch @danluu Yup. I've rejected an aircraft more than once.

Once, for example, because I spotted a tiny dent in the tailplane that nobody else had seen. Presumably it had been bashed by something in the hangar. Had this been a hard enough bash to break or weaken something structural inside? - I didn't wish to find out, that's what engineers are for, not customers. The next time I rented that aircraft the dent was no longer there.

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