The EAA should allow us to use our folding bikes at Airventure

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:01:19 -0700 (PDT), BobR
wrote:



Whiner by a wide margin.

Can't you just see 50,000 people trying to navigate around the crowds
on motorized scooters and bikes? Can't you just imagine the line of
lawyers handing out cards for liability lawsuits? If you are
physically unable to walk, then an exception is in order otherwise,
get off you lazy ass and walk.

I didn't say let eveyone use them, but those flying in, in planes.
They don't have cars with them.

I can walk, but not as good as in the past. I have ALS. but the early
stages of it, so I can still get around.

Yeah, that'll teach 'em. So, you don't vote either, do you? After all, there are very few candidates with whom I agree 100%. One thing irks you and you quit? Or is this the excuse you have been looking for to quit supporting the ONLY organization out there that lobbies for the amateur builder. EAA and AOPA  are about the only orgs large enough to lobby to keep ANY fuel available for nuisance "hobby" aviation (As Babs Boxer calls it). I would never have thought the word "draconian" could be applied to a "walkers only" rule.

Sliker wrote: I'm really tired of their stubborness about this issue. Airventure is
the one place a folding bike would be invaluable. But instead, they
insist we walk with no assist over the huge area of the fly-in.
As a result of their turning a deaf ear to requests for change, I'm
not renewing my membership or attending their fly-ins.
SNF is just as stubborn. With the cost of fuel, they are going to have
enough trouble getting an adequate turnout of sport planes at their
gathering in OSH, maybe now is time to turn the screws on them and
pressure them to change so of those draconian rules.

Bruce A. Frank wrote:
Yeah, that'll teach 'em. So, you don't vote either, do you? After all,
there are very few candidates with whom I agree 100%. One thing irks you
and you quit? Or is this the excuse you have been looking for to quit
supporting the ONLY organization out there that lobbies for the amateur
builder. EAA and AOPA are about the only orgs large enough to lobby to
keep ANY fuel available for nuisance "hobby" aviation (As Babs Boxer
calls it). I would never have thought the word "draconian" could be
applied to a "walkers only" rule.

Does all of the EAA leadership adhere to this rule also?

Matt