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What's Up - March 2013
Little Things Mean a Lot
By Larry Shapiro
And that’s not just the name of a song. Favors always have a cost and sometimes that cost is actually money. Low-end airplanes (the inexpensive type) cost a lot of money to sell, and in my business you always lose some of those dollars – it’s just the nature of the beast. For those buying or selling low-end airplanes, it takes the same amount of time and work but its like lawyers that won’t take cases that won’t make them rich, especially medical cases. There are now limits on compensation they can win and they don’t want to bother, win or lose.
The same is true with commission sales on entry-level airplanes… but if you are honest and accept the responsibility of providing that service to our community, then that’s just the way it is. This is especially true when dealing with donations and free airplanes that folks want to give away. It soaks up time, and other than the personal reward of knowing I did something good, I just suck it up and do it. Okay, so sometimes I get cookies.
Light Sport Flying with In Flight USA - March 2011
LSA’s and Insurance
By Ed Downs
Wow, you really are a devoted aviation buff! The title of this column included the word “Insurance” and you are still reading! To be sure, most readers will have had some reason to deal with insurance of some kind, sometimes leading to lawyers, lawsuits and other unpleasantries that are anything but “entertaining reading.” As an aviation professional that is now working his second half century stint in the business, this writer has certainly seen the good, the bad and the ugly of insurance. That is why I called long time friend and advertiser, Lee Duncan (Aircraft Insurance Agency of Waxahachie, TX) the other day to play “insurance catch-up.”