The underlying point Steve is making is about specialization. You
may be a slow builder, but you can make money fast in your
profession. Despite all the modern conveniences - broadband
communications, pervasive road networks, fast computers, etc., we
have less free time now than ever before. The pressures on our
personal time were never greater. It makes sense to create wealth in
the most efficient way and write checks for everything else.
Everyone has their own priorities for their free time and some may
prefer to spend more time building than flying.
On Jan 27, 2006, at 5:56 AM, S Meyer wrote:
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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