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ORIGINAL: Gordon Mc

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ron S
Example: of 170k AMA members (or whatever it is), we might have 800 jet people paying $10 more, and we'll have 5000 "rubber" people paying $10 less, for a dues income of $42000 less now?[/QUOTE]


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Nah .... you forgot a large part of the equation. There's more than just the jet guys that you can charge extra...

Newly soloed beginners are high risk due to their lack of experience, so a properly set up tier system will charge them a higher rate too. (Just as in auto insurance). Lots of beginners to charge.

Race planes are high risk too (even inside a pylon cage, you aren't safe, as was demonstrated by a fatality some years ago) - lots of race guys to charge...

Big airplanes are high risk too - lots of them to charge...

(Do Big raceplanes get double-dipped ?)

Elderly folk with diminishing reactions, eye-sight etc are high risk too (e.g. the elderly gentleman in Arizona who killed himself by flying his plane into himself when he lost sight of it in the sun) - lots of them to charge....

Pattern planes are high risk (after all, there's at least one fatality with a pattern plane in recent history, and that's more than several of the other supposedly high-risk categories have had).

Novelty airplanes are high risk too (e.g. just look at the flying lawnmower that killed a guy in a sports stadium). Not quite so many of them to charge, but by now the shortfall should have been more than addressed anyway.

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Too bad the poll doesn't have an option of "Yes, but only if the actual risks of each category are properly and fully assessed". That would also help address the issue that the number of "No" choices is double the number of "yes" choices. :

Gordon