Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 00:08:45 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from hestia.email.starband.net ([148.78.247.131] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.5) with ESMTP id 2634409 for lml@lancaironline.net; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 23:49:49 -0400 Received: from starband.net (vsat-148-64-23-255.c050.t7.mrt.starband.net [148.64.23.255]) by hestia.email.starband.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9D3podG019275 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 23:51:53 -0400 X-Original-Message-ID: <3F8A20D5.1050203@starband.net> X-Original-Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 20:49:41 -0700 From: "Hamid A. Wasti" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Blue Mountain Avionics References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Posted for "John Barrett" <2thman@olympus.net>: > Hamid is wondering where the Mr. XXXX and Mr. YYYY's are who are > alleged to > have the BMA EFIS. I wonder also, but if and when they do exist, then > the > LML will be full of postings by these guys either saying how horrible the > product is, that they really like it, or something in between. I > think we > can safely wait for that to happen before we try to submarine the > manufacturer. John, the issue is whether these people exist. One of the reasons the poster felt comfortable going with BMA was because there were lots of units flying. I am just pointing out my experience that in the past such claims have turned out to be urban legends and that he should try and locate some people that are actually flying. There are claims that are very hard to prove or disprove: "This is the best product", "The performance is adequate", "You do not need those features"..... All those are things that two reasonable people can argue about for years and not come to a conclusion. However, claims like "we have 50 airplanes flying" are easy to verify. Once a company makes a claim like this and is then unable to back it up, to me their credibility goes out the window. I am willing to wait weeks, months or years for a few LML subscribers to buy and actually fly the BMA system and then hear what they have to say. However, if the company makes the claim that 10 members are already flying with their system, and the fact that we have not heard any complaints from them is an indication of the quality, then I would at the very least want to know who these members are. Regards, Hamid