X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 12:07:05 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from esmtp.cave.com ([66.35.72.5] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0c2) with ESMTP id 724010 for lml@lancaironline.net; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 11:23:46 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=66.35.72.5; envelope-from=lancair@ustek.com Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([66.35.73.227]) by esmtp.cave.com (VisNetic.MailServer.v7.2.4.1) with ASMTP id CQN38002 for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 11:23:01 -0400 X-Original-Message-ID: <432AE353.1010208@ustek.com> X-Original-Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 11:22:59 -0400 From: N301ES Reply-To: lancair@ustek.com Organization: USTEK Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List Subject: Re: [LML] Re: FAA and Kit built A/C References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Posted for "John W. Cox" : > I know of no such quality Builder Assist program in connection with ex > VAN's employees or a similar Factory Assistance Program at Aurora. Starting in 1998 I built a GlaStar in my garage, taking 3 1/2 years. At that time there was no factory support and indeed the factory went into bankrupcy while I was building. Today however the New GlaStar company is strong and has a great builder's shop in Arlington WA. They have improved the quality of the build, perhaps made the aircraft safer (I might have avoided 2 fires in the cockpit had I used the program), and certainly got more aircraft flying by the initial builders instead of someone who bought the partially finished kit second hand. I believe builders' assistance shops are a good resource for today's sophisticated designs. Robert M. Simon, ES-P N301ES