Fix the high cost [Was:] High Cost of Sportplanes

"Bret Ludwig" wrote:

The LSA will be cost-effective when 10,000 units in two or three
years
is a realistic goal.


FAA's projection is actually for about 10,000 LSA planes in the
total fleet, but flat at that level thereafter, after a few years.

This includes all types of LSAs, including previous "fat
ultralights" now to be in compliance. If there's a dozen or two
major players to produce the planes we'd prefer -- the top end of
LSA limits-- that's not much annual production for each of the
players, so costs are a real factor. With FAA projection of a
future flat market, what decision does an investor make to design
and produce the best performing LSAs?

Fred F.