From: "Marvin Kaye" <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: Lancair Crashes
To: lml
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:57:14 -0500
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Posted for "John Hafen" <j.hafen@comcast.net>:

  Who is the "Safety Tsar" for Lancair?
  
  It seems to me that Joe/Tim/someone officially at Lancair should be named or
  designated as Safety Tsar.  Their responsibility would be to thoroughly
  examine every single Lancair incident, in excruciating detail, and relay to
  the rest of us how NOT to become a statistic.
  
Face it.  The Lancairs are some of the most wonderfully high performance
  aircraft of all time - which is why I'm personally racing to finish my IVP.
  I want the performance.  I also want to intellectually be aware of the
  pitfalls and limitations of having/flying/performing a super high
  performance aircraft.  I would prefer to fly to old age, and die when there
  is no led left in my pencil.  I would prefer not to join the ranks of the
  uninformed/untrained/unacknowledged who have crashed their birds for lack of
  "how not to crash" information.
  
  Gentlemen -- the Lancair is no Piper Cub.  You don't fly it around Utah Lake
  looking for carp.  It is more like an SR-71:  You take off and climb high
  and fly fast and get where you are going.  Marvelously.  Quickly.  Without
  having to land at unmanned airports on the Olympic Peninsula so that your
  wife can take a potty break! (Ask me about taxiing through grass to the
  port-a-let).
  
  JoeB -- are you listening here?
  
  I believe in you and Lancair.  I support you.  I love you!  I challenge you
  to declare an individual as "Safety Tsar" for all Lancair aircraft. It is
  good for you and good for us.  It is a total win win.  You make bucks and we
  impress friends and relatives and gorgeous women and STAY ALIVE TO DO IT
  AGAIN.
  
  Cheers.
  
  John Hafen
  IVP 413AJ to be finished by April of this year!!!!