crytes
Well-Known Member
General aviation is running on extremely old tech and in many cases expensive to boot. FAA certification insures that new factory aircraft either maintain this convention or become prohibitively expensive while old aircraft are forced to remain obsolete to maintain their type certificate. Experimental aviation allows a way to be free of these shackles however it seems most are content with the "good enough" state of general aviation. Excuses like development costs are too high to support such a small customer base are given instead of finding ways to expand the appeal and usefulness of aviation developed products to other markets or adapt products from other market for aviation use and cut development costs. Beyond that simple things like fuses are kept when breakers are available just because fuses have always been used and worked good enough. Now if you're building a replica there may be call to use the old stuff but if you're building for a mission then efficiency, reliability, and ease of use available in modern technology may be of use to you. I'd put a poll on here too but i can't figure it out it's interface right now.