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7 upvotes, 5 comments. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in US Politics.
Or maybe not being able to land in the very worst weather conditions (something many modern planes can’t do anyway) is an ok tradeoff for not supporting a genocidal regime and its war industry? Also what #1 said, ILS exists
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Anonymous 7w

That was VFR into IMC, jet like this will almost always be on an IFR flight plan anyway with pilots who know not to go below minimums. Hundreds of millions of commercial flights have occurred safely without the technology in question

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Anonymous 7w

That’s entirely different, this is not a safety system it’s a capability system. Safe terrain avoidance in low visibility is already an extremely well established procedure, hence why there aren’t airliners constantly crashing every time it’s foggy

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Except midair collision avoidance actually wasn’t working all that well comparatively with just controllers, and midairs were happening too often for comfort, so we got TCAS. Controlled flight into terrain is *extremely* uncommon in modern commercial aviation and almost always the result of gross pilot error. I won’t say this feature adds zero safety, but it’s primarily there to enable a lower decision altitude

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 7w

There are still plenty of business jets that don’t come with it and nobody sees them as unsafe the way they would an airliner without TCAS

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 7w

If you want to disagree with their reasoning in removing it that’s fine, but claiming it’s some major safety failure is just a ridiculous argument, Dassault wouldn’t provide the jet that way if it were

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