Hello Tom,
I am just repeating what Mr. Baily told me to the best of my recollection.
I thought he said that he includes training with the purchase of a UFO and he is the Instructor.
He told me that you two made up and that he wouldn’t make the mistake of engaging in that kind of childish interchange on the internet again. It sounds to me a little like you are baiting him.
I am by no means battling him. My firends at Front Range tell me he is a very nice man and the UFO looks very good!
However, he and Revenboer did a pretty good job of trying to destroy my credibility by saying I had an unsafe attitude toward flying. So I found it ironic that he (who never flew a gyro before) came to Front Range to have John Revenboer solo him in a day so he could demonstrate his machine at Sun n Fun.
He is not an instructor, he is a student with virtually no time in gyros.
I am not trying to start a battle -- but it seems to me that someone should set the record straight if they know the facts to be different than stated here.
As a consumer advocate, I would encourage potential customers never to take the word of anyone, but to get proof. Talk to the previous customers (all 8 of them) to see if they indeed built the machines in 150 hours. Then see if they are flying and ask about performance numbers ... then ask who gave their instruction.
That kind of due diligence is wise no matter who you are dealing with.
Credibility is an important thing -- especially when you are selling something to the public. You should be able to back up what you say and it should not be considered a "challenge" or "battling" when someone states "facts".
Sorry if I sounded argumentative. That is not my intent.
As was one stated here (in a discussion about me) ... I am just trying to save lives.
Now ... getting back to the point of the thread: The economy is NOT as bad as the media is portraying it. And to find that out all one needs to do is examine the numbers. First of all, the swing from "good to bad" with almost all economic indicators are not enough to make the economy very good or very bad. It is mostly a matter of perception. For example, the same number of people are living and breathing and need consumable products. Many of them "hold off" when they believe the economy to be bad for fear of "something worse". However, their needs (or housing, transportation, etc) stay the same. So eventually there becomes a "pent-up" demand. When that lets loose, one perceives the economy to be doing better, when in fact, it is just catching up.
The economy will always inflate and deflate. The thing that makes the "inflation" or "Deflation" (or recession) bad, is our behavior during those times. For people who are "investing" in real estate, now is a great time. For those who need to sell, it is a bad time. If one can time their activities to the right cycle, they will never have a "bad" economy when it comes to themselves.
The segment of the population buying expensive toys are not affected because they usually adjust their trends to meet the economic cycles.