X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from [24.25.9.100] (HELO ms-smtp-01-eri0.southeast.rr.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.2) with ESMTP id 961481 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 23 May 2005 23:15:47 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=24.25.9.100; envelope-from=echristley@nc.rr.com Received: from [192.168.0.10] (cpe-065-187-243-074.nc.res.rr.com [65.187.243.74]) by ms-smtp-01-eri0.southeast.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id j4O3F0Lv012938 for ; Mon, 23 May 2005 23:15:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42929C33.4030207@nc.rr.com> Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 23:14:59 -0400 From: Ernest Christley User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.2 (X11/20050324) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] EAA Tech Counselors References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine John Downing wrote: > I received a note back Cy Galley and Joe Norris at EAA. Joe stated > that they have a note of Tech Counselors who are listed as auto engine > qualified, but don't have a break down on which types of auto > engines. So it sounds like the EAA isn't busting down any doors to > advance the use of auto engines. JohnD Don't attribute to malice that which can best be explained by ignorance/stupidity/laziness... Autoconversions are still rare (notice how much attention they get at any flyin) and I think rotary installations are still a very small minority of those. That is slowly changing, but I wouldn't expect to see the EAA get any more involved until you start to seeing rotary products avertised on the pages of Sport Aviation. -- This is by far the hardest lesson about freedom. It goes against instinct, and morality, to just sit back and watch people make mistakes. We want to help them, which means control them and their decisions, but in doing so we actually hurt them (and ourselves)."