From: "Marvin Kaye" <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [LML] Re: IVP Crash
To: lml
Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 18:36:49 -0400
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Posted for Jack Cowell <jackcowell@optonline.net>:

  OK, Mr. Ayers, I promise this is my last posting on this subject.
  
  Through all of the emails on this accident, I will admit that I have lost 
the
point you were trying to make. Here is my point:
  
  I'm an average pilot who has had the benefit of above average training. In
500 hours in Lancairs, whenever I follow the pilot instruction guidelines the
likes of Mike Mahar and Pete Zaccagnino have instilled in me, my IVP flies
like a jewel.
  
  My bottom line: A Ferrari is not a Toyota Camry.  It is not designed or
supposed to be, and it's a fool's errand to try to make it one. In my
experience, if a Lancair is constructed according to recommended
specifications, it performs like any other high performance vehicle. If you
are a competent pilot who has had competent training, you and your Lancair
high performance aircraft will perform consistently, predictably, and as
advertised.
  
  Your bottom line: If you can produce a high performance aircraft that is
superior to a Lancair, do it.  The buyers will fly a path to your door.  If
you cannot, your efforts will have been in vain and your investment
  will not have been profitable.
  
  No, let's all get on with other -- and hopefully more positive and
productive-- pursuits.