Re: Experimentals and flight training
- From: "Bret Ludwig" <bretldwig@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 12 Oct 2005 16:04:55 -0700
Jerry Springer wrote:
<<snip>>
> Why do people like you hang out here??????????? You have made some of
> the most asinine statements lately. You don't seem to have a grasp of
> reality or understand why some people like to build and fly homebuilts.
People do an infinite many things for an infinite many reasons, but
some tend to be successful and some tend to end up in a lot of money
spent with dismal results, and some others result in an inordinate
percentage of people being killed.
I grew up on an airport and have worked in line service, avionics
shops, aircraft parts and a few other things. I have seen people work
on projects for ten years, lose their medical, their money or their
interest and never fly, more than once. I have also seen people DIE,
right in front of me. I have watched people take off thinking they
would be back in an hour or a day and heard they had crashed shortly
thereafter. In one case a family of four, two killed, one paralyzed,
fourth killed herself two weeks later. Another case pilot alone, just
licensed, own airplane (a certified factory one) he had worked for
_years_ for, decided didn't need insurance(!). Walked out without a
scratch, totalled a/c, never flew again. Knew another homebuilder sold
a project 95% complete, guy finished, crashed and died, widow harassed
him for years-builder's wife left him due to harassment/fear.
Pointing out bad ideas is my right and obligation. You are free to
disagree. But we are never going to have more than 1/3 of 1 percent of
the population flying unless the personal aviation ndustry takes
responsibility for its own. And experimentals, like it or not, are a
big part of the industry. And if personal aviation does not grow to
where it is at least as big as, say, riding modified motorcycles, it
won't have the political clout not to be legislated out of existence
like in Europe and Asia. Less than two million active pilots in the US
means it's a precarious thing. Most people in this hobby are actually
stuck up and anti-growth-they like uncrowdwd skies-but unless you are a
multimillionaire you no longer are able to fly in most countries.
.
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