Originally Posted by
DenverBrian
By your logic, it's incredibly easy to just require that no one use laptops or tablets until 10,000 feet. Or at all.
Additionally, that's not how aviation is regulated.
- Passengers want to use their PEDs.
- Airlines want authorization to allow such use to accommodate customers.
- FAA approves use with conditions and restrictions that reasonably address identifiable threats that such use would introduce.
Forum members go about it differently. They see a regulation and compare and contrast with other policies and regulations and ask, "why not?"
If regulators were required to go back and reevaluate every existing regulation each time a new one was being considered nothing would ever get done. That's not part of the process. Rationalizing conflicting regulations, or at least those that handle similar situations differently, would be done as a completely separate set of rulemaking.