Quote Originally Posted by rspears View Post
I could be wrong, but I don't believe that the FAA has anything to do with airlines rules regarding seat belts and other rules related to how passengers conduct themselves. Those rules are driven by airline liability, and the potential for lawsuits against from the idiots who don't use/have common sense. Private planes have strict requirements regarding mechanical and airframe inspections and procedures, but the use of the plane, and how people conduct themselves on private planes is not regulated, and I'm not sure I would want to see it change.
I should have written this better.I didn't mean to say the FAA has anything to do with being belted in,but more to do with the brakes.The years spent at Burlington Air Express taught me the FAA is more geared towards the regular airlines than cargo or private planes.One example of that was Kalitta Flying Service worked for BAX as a contractor.For yrs one plane would fly into Roch and after landing and the engineer had to come out with a rubber mallet to pound back the veins back in place for the reverser so the cowling would move back.The FAA staffing is pretty thin.Only time I saw a car from them on our side of the airport was to approve flying a forklift damaged plane with 200mph duct tape back to get repaired.