Ryan, I think one of the big roadblocks to LSA is economics. Insurance
companies won't insure classic taildraggers for student solo, so someone
(FBO, student, flying club) is going to have to buy/lease a trike
geared LSA for training. That means one of the new planes which seem to
have a base price of 80,000 buckeroos. For that kind of money, you could
get a decent 182! And don't forget checkouts for the instructor, parts
inventory (which should be relatively small for such new planes), and
maybe even metric tools (1)

If someone is limited to SP, then yeah, 80 grand might seem like a good
idea, or they could go experimental, but you'd still have to find an
instructor to give lessons in a homebuilt...after you get the phase one
flown off, of course.
I really liked some of the new LSA's, and I hope it takes off...I'd like
to fly some of these planes.

John

(1) The week before Oshkosh, I dropped by the FBO hangar where there was
a NEW Katana (not the FBO's). The guys in the shop had to buy metric
tools cause they didn't have any! This was a FBO that had been around
for 75 years!