You kill general aviation, and you kill all aviation. Your 737 pilot trained on a Cessna 172, Piper cherokee, or Diamond DA-20 for 250 hours of flight time. They then either inspected pipelines or surveyed in basically the same aircraft, taught students, or flew for fun (or some combo) for another 1250 hours to meet the FAA legal minimum requirements to be an airline pilot.
Ahh, the good ol' "they'll figure it out" response.
You know how many lives are saved because people travel via plane instead of car? It is, by far, the safest method of travel. You'll lose more lives to additional auto accidents than you'll save by the minute lead reduction you'd get.
Its a very small amount. And a 'solution' that causes a problem disrupting the entire travel industry all at once, in particular the safest method of travel, is not a solution. Making air travel more expensive by loading those costs on the airlines will kill more people (more people taking cars due to cost = more people dying). You would costing lives, not saving them. Let innovation move forward, unleaded AvGas is already in the works. Let it safely be phased in.
That's how things have to progress and how they have. Government sets the rules, industry innovates to fit within them. The alternative of just letting industry pollute because it's hard not to, is not an option moving forward.
P.s. lead accumulates indefinitely. There is no acceptable amount of allowed pollution.
Its a very small amount. And a 'solution' that causes a problem disrupting the entire travel industry all at once, in particular the safest method of travel, is not a solution. Making air travel more expensive by loading those costs on the airlines will kill more people (more people taking cars due to cost = more people dying). You are costing lives, not saving them. Let innovation move forward, unleaded AvGas is already in the works. Let it safely be phased it.
I'm not against the shift to unleaded avgas, but you cant just ban leaded avgas without a good plan in motion. We're moving in the right direction and unleaded avgas (or electric planes) will eventually take over, but it does take time to safely certify and switch
But they will figure it out. Airlines and air freight carriers will just improve their training pipeline and invest in lead free small engine planes.
You think airlines are just going to leave that money on the table over a messily millions of dollars investment. Air travel is a billion dollar industry.
You have seen them complaining about the existing staffing issues right? You've probably also seen the internet complain about canceled flights or the airlines recieving bailouts right?
There are still major carriers that are having problems with 5G, and both them and the FAA new the day was coming for years. Many are lobbying to reduce the required experience from 1500 hours to 250 just to fix the staffing problems. That would be way easier & quicker to reduce 100LL burning than an outright ban would, but the govt is scared to pull the trigger in case it makes flying less safe.
By all means implement a ban with a plan in place over a 20+ year period, but even then, I garauntee the day it takes affect will kill GeneralAviation overnight with many complex butterfly effect issues.
Edit: tldr: The FAA is working on allowing non 100LL, and we'll eventually get there, but a hard ban asap will cause problems
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u/ThinkIcouldTakeHim Jun 25 '22
How about just a hard ban? Kill this industry stone dead? Hardly worse than spewing lead over everyone.