FIFY.
Folks, this isn’t about helping more people fly, it’s about helping more people buy. The airplane industry has no motivation to have more customers for 50-year-old Cherokees. But they would like to sell more new aircraft. And frankly, they harm themselves a bit by injecting more legacy planes into the LSA marketplace.
Bingo. Finally someone who gets it on these aspirational wish upon a wishing star threads. This was never about including the only demographic of airplane most on here can actually afford. They want them out in the scrap yard (fac-built OEMs in particular), which is why I find it ironic people are cheerleading for the further gentrification of their own hobby.
Just like the first LSA rollout, this so-called expansion will have the same price point disappointment as the first, for the same reasons. Naturally, people are latching on to the incidental impact (inclusion of a minority of legacy airplanes, and I include VS1-compliant EABs in that definition of "legacy" ) and rendering it the "primary effort" in their expectation-biased heads.
Which is why they're gonna end up without a balloon at the birthday party, and act chagrined when the NPRM comment process manifests itself yet again "unresponsive" to a demand that was never part of the impetus behind the legislation in the first place. Truly a blindspot on the part of the aspirants, and in fairness to them, further evidence of the legislative Pareto Rule of our pay-to-play governance.
I see. So you're saying that the inclusion of legacy aircraft is just an unintentional artifact of the new rules?
So our arguments made during the public comment period, asking why certain otherwise obvious legacy candidates are excluded, won't be seriously considered because that's not really the objective of the legislation?
Edit - I see you explained that above, earlier
Sucks to "lose your religion" in public, but you're making progress. We're finally past denial. Now comes anger. Others are already a bit ahead of you, spinning their spun bearings over on the NPRM, writing impotent rage letters into the ether. That's the bargaining stage. That's the most pitiful stage imo in witnessing grief, the debasement. Maybe you can luck out and skip a stage or two altogether.
I was ahead of all y'all already in 2015 in step 4, as the part 23 re-write was my mosaic moment. Today I'm happy to report I've stipulated the futility and insolent unresponsiveness of said legislative process, and gone past grief outright and into an actionable (albeit machiavellian) philosophy that has "justice delayed is justice denied" at the center of its axiom.
@Ted and others' exit from the hobby was somewhat informative in being at ease with sidestepping the stupidity of the whole thing. My own bout of mid life crisis in hitting 40 a few years back also clued me into the speed at which this whole short-lived affair we call life is running past me.
BL, waiting for godot is for the birds. Catch me if you can / sometimes the best hand is knowing when to fold them / pick your platitude. But Run-the-clock offense is an outright cruelty to endorse in a medical-qualified-finite life, and something I will not tacitly endorse with bargaining naiveté. As always, I encase my comments with a respectful TETO as the footnote: People are free to expend their time in the manner their hearts should choose; it's a hobby after all. Cheers.
