The point is, the industry member is still selling planes and it's up to the customer to find someone to help him. If he doesn't find anyone to help, there is still a chance he could get his self righting plane up and down without breaking too much. As far as kits go, why would anyone spend months building a plane from a kit and then not find anyone to help him learn how to fly it? Laziness has nothing to do with it. I ran a hobby shop a few years ago and I offered to teach all of my customers to fly whether they bought a plane from me or not. Once they realized they could learn to fly without crashing, they bought kits, spent the time building them, usually through the winter. I helped set their new built kits to fly and spent an hour or so to further train them,. Turns out the majority of my customers loved building and bought many more kits and all the material required to build them. BTW, most of my customers weren't even previously in the hobby.