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Bob
Mackey is the guy at Falcon who went to bat for me. I'm probably the rotary Cozy
he's talking about.
I met
him at Sun & Fun, thanked him for his efforts and told him I'd be in touch
to see if the quote gets more reasonable when I've got 100 hrs on the
plane. :)
He
seems like a smart guy with a good understanding of what we're doing, but he's
battling against a total lack of knowledge, expertise, or even perhaps,
interest, in the insurance world. Incredibly I get the impression that the
insurance underwriters simply don't know how to access risk, and worse, don't
care. They'll underwrite a Powersport system, or a worn out Lycoming in a
second, but they have to be persuaded hard to consider a rotary installed to
every possible exacting standard and with redundancy built into every system.
This while complaining that they're loosing their shirt and the number of
companies underwriting the General AC world is reducing. They've lost 3 Cozy's
to Lycoming engine failures in the past 6 months. Their reaction is to put the
premiums up for all Cozy's. Why not for Lycoming powered Cozy's, since thats
where the failures were. Could have been Lycoming powered 172's. Results would
have been the same or, probably, worse. I hate it when big corporations forget
how to THINK.
The
one thing I learned is not to take no (or a high quote) for an answer. Just keep
beating on them and make the discussions public, and eventually you wear them
down.
John
Slade
Turbo Rotary Cozy IV (without the
turbo)
1.2 hrs.
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