X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from [65.173.216.67] (account marv@lancaironline.net) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro WebUser 5.0c2) with HTTP id 731017 for lml@lancaironline.net; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:55:02 -0400 From: "Marvin Kaye" Subject: Re: [LML] Re: FAA trying to stop us my .02 To: lml X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro WebUser v5.0c2 Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:55:02 -0400 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Posted for "Matt Hapgood" : -- Instead of condemning people like Rick who push the technology, -- we should direct our efforts at making the law rational. Bill, I love it. I'm sure there are people who will pick holes in your argument, and who couldn't. But that's not the point - as you've shown we could all pick holes in existing policies. You are arguing for fast-paced progress and market based decisioning. That will fly in the face of many in the industry who feel that we must have government save us. Maybe it's that they count on government saving THEM. We (the US) need policies that encourage innovation and reward progress. I promise you that the China's and India's of the world are doing just that. If we sit on the sidelines and park our butts in policies that have held us back for almost 50 years our industry will die (Columbia and Cirrus are surviving in spite of the regs, not because of the regs). Piper, Raytheon and Cessna will die (or at least their GA business will), and that's okay. Let's just hope that their business is replaced by US based innovators and not A) foreign businesses (our balance of trade is bad enough already) or B) not replaced at all. Bill, your idea may not be perfect, but it's a whole lot closer to ideal than our current situation. Let others pick holes, I'd rather move forward and trim a few layers of inefficient beauracracy. Matt [ other posts along the same line -Rob From: "Bill Hooker" Pretty cogent! From: "Chatfield S. Daniel" I like the way you think. ]