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Let's Get Real Here.
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:37:20 -0700, Bret Ludwig
wrote: On Aug 28, 9:47 am, "Peter Dohm" wrote: The T-34 is the airplane people WANT. Study Trade-A-Plane. And it isn't even a particularly good airplane. Study too why MOTORCYCLING is very successful with huge market growth in the last 50 years and GA is not. Despite being even more dangerous. Let me know what you think it is. Hint: The Usual Reason is horse**** and I can prove it. I'm too damned lazy to study it, but just assumed it was ecause you can can drive your motorcycle to the nearest bar, blip the throttle a cople of times, and strut inside... Well, that's one point, but you don't have freedom of movement in three axes like an aerobatic aircraft. Thinkl about this question seriously because in it you will find why personal aviation is nearly You have to learn how to fly. On a bike you only need to learn where the gear positions, brakes, and starter are located. dead. |
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Let's Get Real Here.
IMHO, the weight limits on Light Sport are the totally unreasonable determination of a bunch of desk jockeys. At the very least, they should have accomodated the weights of two seat basic trainers commonly made and used in the United States. The cost to build and maintain an aircraft of 750KG gross weigth would not be substantially more than for a 600KG aircraft--and would very likely be less. In attition, it would have put more companies and craftsmen back to work here in the USA. Someone else said the utterly obvious ten years ago-if a light airplane is arbitrarily defined at 12,500 lbs, an ultralight ought to be 1250 lbs. |
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Let's Get Real Here.
On Aug 30, 9:59 am, "Peter Dohm" wrote:
Bret Ludwig wrote: Well, that's one point, but you don't have freedom of movement in three axes like an aerobatic aircraft. Thinkl about this question seriously because in it you will find why personal aviation is nearly dead. Well Bret if you know the reason you ought to tell us so we can maybe do something about it. A decent amount of time having elapsed, it is now abundantly clear that Bret knows no more than the rest of us. We were so hopefull and, now, our hopes are dashed! Oh, sorry. Got busy with other things. Well, I'm not sure it accounts for all of it, but motorcycles were subject to severe social opprobrium in the 50s and 60s. Outlaw motorcycle outfits that terrorized the populace and the cultural treatment of same allowed the Japanese companies to market their "safe, inoffensive, and economical" products as a counterpoint. The yuppie fascination with Harleys would not exist today if they didn't conjure up images of the forbidden, in doctors and accountants whose fathers would have whipped their ass if they had bought one in high school. Cessna and Piper and Beech put out all that horse**** about the light airplane as a business tool. People don't want them as a business tool, they want to play fighter pilot. Light aircraft are generally speaking worthless for business use. That's the purview of crew operated miniature airliners and turbine helicopters. When the rich started getting richer faster under Senileman and Bush I the market for toys and collectibles of all kinds exploded, but Wichita went into a recession. The reason was that Wichita, a town in which I have spent way too much time, is loaded with fundamentalist morons and idiot kids who prefer driving lowriders up and down Kellogg at 3" AGL to learning to fly. http://www.vdare.com/letters/tl_082307.htm |
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Let's Get Real Here.
"Bret Ludwig" wrote in message ups.com... On Aug 30, 9:59 am, "Peter Dohm" wrote: Bret Ludwig wrote: Well, that's one point, but you don't have freedom of movement in three axes like an aerobatic aircraft. Thinkl about this question seriously because in it you will find why personal aviation is nearly dead. Well Bret if you know the reason you ought to tell us so we can maybe do something about it. A decent amount of time having elapsed, it is now abundantly clear that Bret knows no more than the rest of us. We were so hopefull and, now, our hopes are dashed! Oh, sorry. Got busy with other things. Well, I'm not sure it accounts for all of it, but motorcycles were subject to severe social opprobrium in the 50s and 60s. Outlaw motorcycle outfits that terrorized the populace and the cultural treatment of same allowed the Japanese companies to market their "safe, inoffensive, and economical" products as a counterpoint. The yuppie fascination with Harleys would not exist today if they didn't conjure up images of the forbidden, in doctors and accountants whose fathers would have whipped their ass if they had bought one in high school. Cessna and Piper and Beech put out all that horse**** about the light airplane as a business tool. People don't want them as a business tool, they want to play fighter pilot. Light aircraft are generally speaking worthless for business use. That's the purview of crew operated miniature airliners and turbine helicopters. When the rich started getting richer faster under Senileman and Bush I the market for toys and collectibles of all kinds exploded, but Wichita went into a recession. The reason was that Wichita, a town in which I have spent way too much time, is loaded with fundamentalist morons and idiot kids who prefer driving lowriders up and down Kellogg at 3" AGL to learning to fly. http://www.vdare.com/letters/tl_082307.htm Wow! There is a lot there with which to dissagree and much of it is a diatribe of party politics, way off topic, and extremely bigotted as well. However, it does also illustrate a current marketing adage: "People decide on emotion and then they justify their decisions with logic." "You meet the nicest people on a Honda" was certainly a successful marketing campaign. However, much of the social stigma attached to motorcycles may have resulted from their use as props in action/adventure movies of the 1950's. The war was over, and new villains and new props may have been easier to obtain than new and untested plots. IMHO, motorcycles may have simply resumed their earlier place in the transportation and recreation mix. Of course, the Harley Davidson policy of restricting production to support the resale value of thier recent production did help to support the logic with which the customers justified their purchase. Piper and Beech are exactly correct about the use of light planes as business tools, and it would be even better if they cost half as much; but the cost part is only relevant to the trade-in and move-up market. The real problem is that the cost justification is only the SECOND half of the decision process--which leaves the basic emotional marketing issue unresolved. Peter |
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Let's Get Real Here.
Piper and Beech are exactly correct about the use of light planes as business tools, and it would be even better if they cost half as much; but the cost part is only relevant to the trade-in and move-up market. The real problem is that the cost justification is only the SECOND half of the decision process--which leaves the basic emotional marketing issue unresolved. There are legitimate utility and commercial uses of light recip aircraft as we all know, Alaskan bush flying, pipeline patrol, a great number of things but all niche and fairly limited markets. The kind of "business flying" the lightplane people were pushing for decades- flying for sales and meeting purposes, etc, is patent horse****. LIGHT AIRCRAFT ARE TOYS. When a single pilot Cat II or IIIA approved known icing approved light twin with single lever power control meeting transport category single engine takeoff minimums can be had for less than ten times the annualized cost of first class airline tickets....we may reappraise this statement. A motorcycle and a light aircraft have EXACTLY the same justification and EXACTLY the same business utilization. An airplane is probably properly more expensive but not twenty or even ten times. You ought to be able to buy a two seat day VFR airplane for less than a Corvette, very certainly. But it should be fully aerobatic and climb out at a smart angle at an impressive rate of climb and make a lot of noise. |
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