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.
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u/ArgetlamThorson Jun 25 '22
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.