Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site terak.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!noao!terak!doug From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Re: Primary aircraft proposal. Message-ID: <213@terak.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 11:19:28 EST Article-I.D.: terak.213 Posted: Tue Dec 4 11:19:28 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 02:16:27 EST References: <4@decvax.UUCP> Organization: Terak Corporation, Scottsdale, AZ, USA Lines: 26 [] Seems to me that the Primary Aircraft Proposal is missing the point. We don't need less expensive new aircraft. We don't need any new aircraft (well, not many). The leaders of the aviation community have sold the public on the idea that General Aviation is not a toy, but rather a form of Transportation. Transportation aircraft are much more expensive than Toy aircraft, both to buy and to operate. As a result, most folks who get into flying get back out again when they find that they realistically need a 6-figure income to support a Transportation aircraft. The number of pilots interested in Toy aircraft is continuously dropping, and the supply of used Toy planes will meet their needs for a long, long time to come. The continuous turn-over in Transportation aircraft pilots results in new high-end (not Primary) planes being sold and then later resold numerous times, working their way down the price ladder, satisfying the demand of Transportation pilots at all levels. (This would not be the case if Transportation pilots kept their planes.) Conclusion: the only new planes we need are a slow trickle of high-end Transportation planes (230+ HP retractables). And surprise, this is what the manufacturers have determined is selling! Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug