RE: How to handle the guys with flawed plans?
For the low-end "teach yourself to fly" market, P.T. Barnum is proven right. There really is a sucker born every minute. It's not completely the manufacturers' faults. They are just supplying what the market wants. The real issue is cheap people who somehow work it out in their minds that a $100 Chinese knockoff that looks sorta like the real thing is the same as a $400 hobby grade piece of equipment. The same people don't want to work at gaining the skills for the hobby, so the market is full of junky products for them. On the other hand, there are those minority of pilots that really are satisfied to fly around in circles in a field every once in a while, and planes like the Champ or the Super Cub serve that role very well.