Snowbird wrote:
I once listened to Dave Platt, CEO of Hewlett-Packard when they still made
the world's best oscilloscopes.

IMHO HP never made the best oscilloscopes and
my opinion is shared by many. They certainly
did make the best spectrum, network and logic
analyzers, signal generators and voltmeters.

Their current line of digital scopes isn't
bad, but their analog scopes were never even
in the same league as Tek. There was never a
substitute for a Tek 454 or later, a 465.
The 485 was agueably the best portable scope
ever made anywhere by anyone.

His message was about change. "Normally, change happens only when the pain
of continuing exceeds the pain of making the change. The leaders will be
those who dare to change sooner".

Think of the day when avgas will cost $10 a gallon as it already does in
Europe, and you still want to continue flying. The Europeans already prove
it's doable, so better start preparing now.

Already did. I fly behind a Rotax 912. Burns
2.5 gallons/hr training and 5 gallons/hr cruising.
And that's premium mogas.