ET wrote:

Mark Smith wrote in :


I agree with most of what you say, not sure on the screwing part, I'd
sure be a bit choosier !

But I have been flying for many, many years, build planes complete,
have a better safety record than any other BFI I know anything about,
my students rent my planes, and without exception, don't bend them up,

I sell evryt few parts locally, mostly plugs and such, some upgrade
kits and such, but no massive amounts of rebuiuld crash type parts,,,,
and i can tell the difference between crash parts and upgrade stuff,

the FnAA took this all away when they did away with the BFI program,

USUA let them, making some good comments to the NPRM, but waaaay too
late to do any good,

FnAA said " FAA disagrees" to most of the comments, and they got more
to this NPRM than any other, ever,

I'm ****ed,,,,,,,,,not that I will be out of business, but more that I
feel I owe training to the ul group,

as planes change hands, new planes get built, , etc, new ulers need
training available at reasonablbe rates,

I charged 55 an hour, and this is up time, not paperowrk and
such,,,,,,

just makes me mad they saw fit to screw with a good program, at least
locally,

some say the abusees were rampant, and to this, Jim Stephenson is the
number one abuser of the BFI system, with ASC reps handing them out
like candy, with little training, etc, just money,

I sent lots of locals to another ASC ( I was USUA) AFI with the
suggestioin to call ahead and ask the specific question,,,,,,,,

" How much money should I bring to get my BFI this weekend ? "

seems like I heard 500 was about right,

one lap around the field, some coaching on the FOI test, etc,

I'd bet there are less than 10 percent of the BFI's from last year
this year



There is NOTHING stopping you from training a UL'r in your eLSA. Just
because it has an N number on it, does not stop you from training a
single seat wannabe.

You are in the extreem minority in renting your aircraft to your
students. 4 UL places within 200 miles of me say "you have to have your
own aircraft to solo..."

And it's all the "pretend" BFI's in there "pretend" trainers (that were
too heavy even to meet the training exemption), that brought on the bad
news for UL'rs, not Jim S. I'm not saying they pretended to get the
proper training, just that many many BFI owning 2 seat plans never gave
a real lesson in there life. (and you, of course, know it)

ET



you missed the point.

I build my own planes to train to save money,plus, get a safer,
stronber, more rigid plane that meets the needs of a rigorous training
routine better.

I can NO LONGER DO THAT !!

Should i repeat that or did you see the all caps this time around.

Also, I would be under the gun of the Feds, who know nothing about uls,
the type people who fly them, etc.

They don't want the onerous rules, Part 61, Part 91, etc which are
written for fast, heavy, large, did I mention fast airplanes. Note the
word ultralight was not used.

,,, and if youve been paying atention to sprot pile it, an instructor
must go out and buy a new plane, estimated to cost a 1000 dolars more by
Jim Stephenson, clueless, due to certification costs, but now estimated
to be closer to 40,000 with high estimates of 60,000

also, these planes won't be the open tube and fabric planes that are
better for MX traing, they will be enclosed GA look-a-likes with stall
speeds near the WOT speed of the typical MX.

get some answers to these questions,then respond,

I will never buy an assla or essla or whatever they name these huge
expensive airplanes




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Mark Smith
Tri-State Kite Sales
1121 N Locust St
Mt Vernon, IN 47620
1-812-838-6351
http://www.trikite.com