I think there are fewer builders and a lot of ARFs because there is a
market for it. It's just economics. The best builders produce and
sell kits or planes. If the demand is not met more builders step in
or you build one yourself. It's just pure business. Many don't hone
their building skills because they are actively making money at their
job/business so they can enjoy the little spare time they
have. Seems here in USA we are putting in more hours at work than
our ancestors.
If everyone was a builder there would be no buyers, the builder would
not get better because they could not afford to make a lot of planes.
I think the laws of commerce are working fine in the soaring community.
Steve
At 11:43 AM 1/26/2006, Phil Barnes wrote:
...
To answer John's question: I think it might be less than 10-20%
scratch builders that enter the NATS. The way things are going, it
won't be long before it will be hard to find guys who can even put
together an ARF model. I don't know what to do about that other than
being a resource for that type of information. Certainly the
internet makes it easy for people to get the information needed to
learn how to scratch build.
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