Bob and the others who wrote, True, I have a big mouth, but... It is just so stupid that they make Cessna and the rest of them jump through endless hoops while a bunch of kit makers, some of whom are pushing con-artist standing, led on by the EAA, make snap together kits for folks so that they can have a cheaper plane. How does this help anyone? Most of the people I have seen building them lately are as naive as anybody who would go out and get suckered into buying a plane if Cessna were making one under less stringent regulations. I know of quite a few, including a couple here at our airport, that were manufactured in the north east, at a total cost of perhaps $200,000 each (I'm talking composite speedsters here, Lancairs etc.) The local coal company owner "built" one of them, which really surprised everybody, even his own mother who I know well. That is what it is all about. They forgot all about the REAL homebuilders a long time ago. Look at the experimental amateur-built category, what it is supposed to be for, education etc., then look at how the EAA brings them all up to their big shindig and is in on the announcement of every new snap together kit, all of which are clearly for general flying, not for the experience of contruction and learning. That's only half of it, the rest of it is the people with no sense who will fly anything with or without wings, get the materials out at 84 Lumber, engine out at Bill and Bud's Auto-Motif Recyclin', but that is another debate all together. Glen Ward EAA Chapter Never
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