Dearest Larry,

Please GIVE IT UP!! Jay provides at his own cost a party for all of
those who WANT to come. If you think the "enticement" of a free beer is
enough to drag a unwilling pilot to a party and force them to spend the
night at Jay's hotel you don't think much of pilots. For those who wish
to imbibe they would have the choice of staying at Jay's or I'm sure
they could walk down the road to some other establishment. They might
even have some self control and drink, dare I say it, water!

To bash Jay for offering up a lovely social occasion is out of line!
Now, if only it was early enough for those of us who park the planes at
Oshkosh ...

We will see you when you land and I'm leaving Wed. night open to drag
myself all the way to the North 40 where Jay hosts (with the barbequeing
brilliance on Mont Blanc) another lovely party.

Cheers to Jay!! (and Mary, and the kids). While I disagree with Jay on
almost every political topic in the world the Honeck's are in my view
the pinnicle of "flying family".

Margy



Larry Dighera wrote:
On Sat, 07 May 2005 02:15:57 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote in
xxVee.54333$r53.40993@attbi_s21::


"Marketing ploy?" Larry, a marketing ploy is designed to MAKE money.

A "party" is designed to COST money.


Perhaps. But it would seem that you have a rather captive audience,
in as much as pilots will be unable to depart for 8 house after
consuming the last free drink, and you are in the business of renting
rooms for the night.

And given:

From: "Jay Honeck"
Newsgroups: rec.aviation.piloting
Subject: Oshkosh Bound? Free Beer in Iowa!
Message-ID: SjDQa.61093$H17.19134@sccrnsc02
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 19:16:02 GMT

Is there a free sober-up room to go along with the free beer?
:-)

Well, you could lay down in my hanger, I suppose.

We've got two couches there -- one comfy for sleeping, and the
other that we got from the "University Surplus" store. It's hard
plastic, and was obviously designed to be cleaned with a fire
hose, for those "post party" power yawns...
--
Jay Honeck

It would seem that your policy is not to provide complementary rooms
to the guests you entice with beer, so it might accurately be
characterized as a marketing scheme if they are made to pay for a room
at your establishment.

I was perfectly willing to drop this issue, but you keep drawing my
name into it, so you force me to go on reminding you of the facts.