1. I don't pay $50k for any vehicle. 2. If I did, it would be my choice. This "one time" fee would be imposed on me whether I wanted it or not. 3. Clearly, you are buying the wrong SUV.
Many things have "conspired" to drive down private aviation.
1. As you mention, insurance costs for small plane manufacturers. Somehow, when some idiot flies into IFR weather, despite warnings from the FFS and ATC, the plane manufacturer is liable. Several small manufacturers have been bankrupted by lawsuits resulting from just one accident caused by pilot error.
2. Local communities are raising fees, placing restrictions on, and generally forcing small airports to close. Small strips in the middle of nowhere become surrounded by homes and malls and the next thing you know, they are shut down.
3. The FAA, just like any federal agency, is often on a power trip. Individual pilots are harassed over less then perfect paperwork, manufacturers are subject to suffocating levels of paperwork and regulations. I read somewhere that the 787 could not physically carry all the paperwork that had to be provided to the feds during its design/construction/certification.
4. Lastly, the proliferation of restricted airspace makes it almost impossible to fly long distances without costly course changes to avoid them. Throw crazy security measures...heaven help you if you file a flight plan and are in the air and THEN a TFR is declared due to Presidential travel. While seeing an F-16 flying in formation with you is fun, the aftermath is definitely not.
So as is usually the case, the primary driver of costs is the government.
They still haven't figured out how to build a home you can get a couch, fridge, or other appliances into without needing 4 guys and lots of padding on the walls.
And how many times have you read that "being hungry", or that you have no other option than to succeed, being a driving factor in the success of a new business?
Such simple truths will be met with limitless rage.
The thing about the field of Public Opinion is that White Coats really don't count for much. Because you and your White Coat could be perfectly right as far as the science goes but dead wrong as far as pubic policy goes.
Case in point: wind energy is unquestionably killing endangered birds, yet public policy is evidently saying that's OK.
Just wanted to mention Alfred Wegener, the man who proposed continental drift, only to be dismissed for nearly 50 years before being accepted.
Or, you can read about Barry Marshal who discovered that the bacterium H. pylori caused peptic ulcer disease, leading him to win a Nobel Prize in 2005. he published it in the 80's and if wasn't widely accepted until some 10 years later.
So regardless of the AGW debate, your assertion that it must be true because there is no widely accepted theory disproving it, is complete horseshit.
Obsidian would now have to show that Cox had actual knowledge that her post was false when she published it
Something about this just seems wrong. How may times have people had their lives ruined by false accusations in the Press only to have the accusations shown to be false. Richard Jewel is a good example. Seems to me that just being a notable person should not be a free pass for folks in the Press to ruin them, accidentally or otherwise.
Nothing but an endless cycle of new languages that do the same thing with a different syntax and different order. The so-called advances in IT are kind of like the advances in MS Office...mostly rearranging the menus and renaming commands.
Some significant fraction of our military is charged with maintaining the Freedom of the Seas. So I guess we are subsidizing all of American commerce that ships or imports stuff via cargo ships.
Investment Credits are simply tax reductions. Taking less is not the same as handing out.
Fracking has been going on for decades. There is nothing really new about that technology and nothing new about the supposed environmental impacts. What they didn't do was burden the process with new "Significant environmental protections".
So you need to see what else is in your head. Hint: It has to be something other than "I'm a wacko who hates fossil fuels" - even though you drive with them, heat with them and use electricity generate by them.
Now you have to focus: Show where the "fossil fuel industry" is being given checks from the U.S. government.
Can you enlighten us all and tell us where the fossil fuel industry is being given checks for hundreds of millions of dollars like in the case of Solyndra , etc?
Because reducing the amount of money you take out of a functioning, profitable enterprise is not the same as handing money to a company that doesn't produce anything, sell anything, let alone make any kind of profit.
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1. I don't pay $50k for any vehicle.
2. If I did, it would be my choice. This "one time" fee would be imposed on me whether I wanted it or not.
3. Clearly, you are buying the wrong SUV.
"Home built" planes are an expanding market.
For the cost of a luxury car and 3000 hours effort, you can have a plane that cruises at 200mph.
But it is still expensive.
Many things have "conspired" to drive down private aviation.
1. As you mention, insurance costs for small plane manufacturers. Somehow, when some idiot flies into IFR weather, despite warnings from the FFS and ATC, the plane manufacturer is liable. Several small manufacturers have been bankrupted by lawsuits resulting from just one accident caused by pilot error.
2. Local communities are raising fees, placing restrictions on, and generally forcing small airports to close. Small strips in the middle of nowhere become surrounded by homes and malls and the next thing you know, they are shut down.
3. The FAA, just like any federal agency, is often on a power trip. Individual pilots are harassed over less then perfect paperwork, manufacturers are subject to suffocating levels of paperwork and regulations. I read somewhere that the 787 could not physically carry all the paperwork that had to be provided to the feds during its design/construction/certification.
4. Lastly, the proliferation of restricted airspace makes it almost impossible to fly long distances without costly course changes to avoid them. Throw crazy security measures...heaven help you if you file a flight plan and are in the air and THEN a TFR is declared due to Presidential travel. While seeing an F-16 flying in formation with you is fun, the aftermath is definitely not.
So as is usually the case, the primary driver of costs is the government.
The real question is what is driving up the cost of living?
Just don't piss off the computer.
...no Beta comments?
Are we done with that now?
Better would be a kill switch that actually killed the perp the first time they tried to use a stolen device.
Looks like they hired some coders
Does it look like this?
They still haven't figured out how to build a home you can get a couch, fridge, or other appliances into without needing 4 guys and lots of padding on the walls.
Holy Hell.
Face palm!
The police do that more often than you think.
I'm sure there are people who would use the "disparate impact" line of thinking to infer racism.
Pick up a copy of Entrepreneur or Fast Company or any magazine focuses on small business.
And how many times have you read that "being hungry", or that you have no other option than to succeed, being a driving factor in the success of a new business?
Such simple truths will be met with limitless rage.
The thing about the field of Public Opinion is that White Coats really don't count for much. Because you and your White Coat could be perfectly right as far as the science goes but dead wrong as far as pubic policy goes.
Case in point: wind energy is unquestionably killing endangered birds, yet public policy is evidently saying that's OK.
Just wanted to mention Alfred Wegener, the man who proposed continental drift, only to be dismissed for nearly 50 years before being accepted.
Or, you can read about Barry Marshal who discovered that the bacterium H. pylori caused peptic ulcer disease, leading him to win a Nobel Prize in 2005. he published it in the 80's and if wasn't widely accepted until some 10 years later.
So regardless of the AGW debate, your assertion that it must be true because there is no widely accepted theory disproving it, is complete horseshit.
Obsidian would now have to show that Cox had actual knowledge that her post was false when she published it
Something about this just seems wrong. How may times have people had their lives ruined by false accusations in the Press only to have the accusations shown to be false. Richard Jewel is a good example. Seems to me that just being a notable person should not be a free pass for folks in the Press to ruin them, accidentally or otherwise.
Nearly $2 Billion conservatively speaking. $77 billion from FY2008 through FY2013.
Two Thirds of CA is a desert...always has been.
The only reason people don't think of it that way is because of the water that comes from the Colorado River.
If they next see a paper bag on fire, don't run over it!
I look forward to completing my MBA and becoming your manager.
How do you feel about working weekends?
Time to leave IT.
Nothing but an endless cycle of new languages that do the same thing with a different syntax and different order. The so-called advances in IT are kind of like the advances in MS Office...mostly rearranging the menus and renaming commands.
Some significant fraction of our military is charged with maintaining the Freedom of the Seas. So I guess we are subsidizing all of American commerce that ships or imports stuff via cargo ships.
Investment Credits are simply tax reductions. Taking less is not the same as handing out.
Fracking has been going on for decades. There is nothing really new about that technology and nothing new about the supposed environmental impacts. What they didn't do was burden the process with new "Significant environmental protections".
So you need to see what else is in your head. Hint: It has to be something other than "I'm a wacko who hates fossil fuels" - even though you drive with them, heat with them and use electricity generate by them.
Now you have to focus: Show where the "fossil fuel industry" is being given checks from the U.S. government.
Can you enlighten us all and tell us where the fossil fuel industry is being given checks for hundreds of millions of dollars like in the case of Solyndra , etc?
Because reducing the amount of money you take out of a functioning, profitable enterprise is not the same as handing money to a company that doesn't produce anything, sell anything, let alone make any kind of profit.